Cartosat-2F is an ISRO Earth-observation satellite launched in January 2018 to add to the imaging services of the Cartosat-2 series. It flies in a sun-synchronous orbit about 500 km up.
ISRO launched Cartosat-2F to augment data services from the Cartosat-2 series.
Its pictures are used for mapping, urban and rural planning, coastal land-use regulation, road and water-supply networks, land-use maps and change detection.
It weighed 710 kg at launch and is similar in design to the earlier satellites of the series, which carry panchromatic and multispectral cameras.
PSLV-C40, the 42nd flight of PSLV, lifted off from the First Launch Pad at Sriharikota on 12 January 2018 at 9:29 IST.
It carried 30 co-passengers: an Indian microsatellite (Microsat), an Indian nanosatellite (INS-1C), and 3 microsatellites and 25 nanosatellites from Canada, Finland, France, South Korea, the UK and the USA.
The public satellite catalogue carries Cartosat-2F with an operational flag, in an orbit of about 506 × 510 km.