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VRSS-2 (Sucre)
Compiled from public sources on 2026-06-21. Not independently verified by Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales.
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VRSS-2, also known as Sucre and Antonio Jose de Sucre, is a Venezuelan remote-sensing satellite, international designation 2017-060A, launched on 2017-10-09 on Long March 2D from Jiuquan.[1] The mission carries a High Resolution Camera with 0.98 m panchromatic, 4 m multispectral imaging, and a 30 km swath, plus an Infrared Camera with 30 m SWIR, 60 m LWIR, 10 bands, and a 30 km swath.[1] It operates in Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit at about 612 x 639 km and supports land and territorial monitoring, agriculture and planning support, disaster recovery, vegetation monitoring, and water-resource monitoring.[2][1]
All fields
| current status | operational |
| operator | Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales |
| platform | cast-2000 |
| launch vehicle | casc-long-march-2d |
| Launched | 2017-10-09 |
| orbit type | Sun-synchronous LEO; CelesTrak 612 x 639 km, 97.65 deg as of 2026-06-21 |
| swath km | 30 |
| revisit days | 101 |
| tasking supported | false |
| current geographic priority | Venezuela and national land, water, agriculture, and disaster-management applications |
| Last updated | 2026-06-21 |
| claim status | agency-sourced |
Compositional position
- [1]CelesTrak SATCAT record for VRSS-2community2026-06-21
- [2]VRSS 2 (Antonio Jose de Sucre), Gunter Space Pagethird party2026-06-21