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PRSS-1 (Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite-1)

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PRSS-1 is a Pakistani optical Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite. It launched on 2018-07-09 on Long March 2C from Jiuquan.^[1] The mission uses a China-built spacecraft and optical payload stack for Pakistan's remote-sensing satellite programme.^[1]^[2] It supplies the PRSS programme context for land-cover change, crop-type analysis, urban-change monitoring and disaster damage assessment workflows linked to optical imagery.^[2]

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current status	operational
operator	Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
platform	prss-1-satellite-bus
launch vehicle	casc-long-march-2c
Launched	2018-07-09
orbit type	Sun-synchronous, 700 km, 38.28 deg inclination
tasking supported	false
Last updated	2026-06-21
claim status	unclaimed

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Compositional position

this ——— PRSS-1 satellite bus bus

this ——— Land cover change related-topic

this ——— Crop-type mapping related-topic

this ——— Urban change related-topic

this ——— Disaster damage assessment related-topic

Sources

[1]Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite portal archiveoperator marketing2026-06-21
[2]PRSS-1, Wikipedia snapshotcommunity2026-06-21

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