# VRSS-2 (Sucre)
*missions*

## Specifications
- **country**: Venezuela
- **operator**: abae
- **revisit days**: 101
- **orbit type**: Sun-synchronous LEO; CelesTrak 612 x 639 km, 97.65 deg as of 2026-06-21
- **current geographic priority**: Venezuela and national land, water, agriculture, and disaster-management applications
- **launch vehicle**: casc-long-march-2d
- **platform**: cast-2000
- **swath km**: 30
- **current status**: operational
- **tasking supported**: false
- **actual launch**: 2017-10-09
- **entity type**: mission
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-21
- **verified by**: community
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: abae
- **attributes**: {"country":"Venezuela","operator":"abae","revisit_days":101,"orbit_type":"Sun-synchronous LEO; CelesTrak 612 x 639 km, 97.65 deg as of 2026-06-21","current_geographic_priority":"Venezuela and national land, water, agriculture, and disaster-management applications","launch_vehicle":"casc-long-march-2d","platform":"cast-2000","swath_km":30,"current_status":"operational","tasking_supported":false,"actual_launch":"2017-10-09"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
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.[^gunter-vrss-2] 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.[^gunter-vrss-2] 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.[^celestrak-vrss-2][^gunter-vrss-2]

## Compositional position
- VRSS-2 (Sucre) --[mission_payloads]--> vrss-2-hrc (products)
- VRSS-2 (Sucre) --[mission_payloads]--> vrss-2-irc (products)
- VRSS-2 (Sucre) --[mission_buses]--> cast-2000 (products)
- VRSS-2 (Sucre) --[related-topic]--> land-cover-change (topics)
- VRSS-2 (Sucre) --[related-topic]--> disaster-damage-assessment (topics)
- VRSS-2 (Sucre) --[related-topic]--> deforestation (topics)

## Sources
- [celestrak-vrss-2] | CelesTrak SATCAT record for VRSS-2 | https://celestrak.org/satcat/records.php?INTDES=2017-060A | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-21
- [gunter-vrss-2] | VRSS 2 (Antonio Jose de Sucre), Gunter Space Page | https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/vrss-2.htm | tier=third-party | accessed=2026-06-21

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