Cartosat-2C is an ISRO mapping satellite with panchromatic and multispectral cameras, launched by PSLV-C34 in June 2016. ISRO called it the Cartosat-2 Series Satellite.
Cartosat-2C takes detailed pictures of the ground with a panchromatic (black-and-white) camera and a multispectral (colour) camera. Its images help make maps, plan cities and villages, manage coasts, watch road and water networks and spot changes over time.
It is similar to the earlier Cartosat-2, 2A and 2B. It was the first of the Cartosat-2 family to add a multispectral camera, and it flies lower, at about 505 km, to see finer detail. It produces 986 W of power.
PSLV-C34, the thirty-sixth PSLV flight, launched it from the Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota at 09:26 IST on 22 June 2016. Nineteen other satellites rode along: seventeen from the USA, Canada, Germany and Indonesia, and two from Indian universities, SathyabamaSat and Swayam. All twenty went into a sun-synchronous polar orbit about 505 km up.
The public satellite catalogue carries Cartosat-2C with an operational flag.