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VRSS-2 (Sucre)

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]

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current status	Operational
operator	Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales
platform	CAST-2000 satellite bus
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	No
current geographic priority	Venezuela and national land, water, agriculture, and disaster-management applications

Supply chain position

built on platform CAST-2000 satellite bus

operated by Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales

launched on Casc Long March 2d

related to Land cover change

related to Disaster damage assessment

related to Deforestation

Sources

[1]VRSS 2 (Antonio Jose de Sucre), Gunter Space Pagethird party2026-06-21
[2]CelesTrak SATCAT record for VRSS-2community2026-06-21

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:vrss-2,
  title = {VRSS-2 (Sucre)},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/vrss-2}
}