Resourcesat-2 is an Indian remote-sensing satellite launched in April 2011 to continue Resourcesat-1's three-camera imaging. Its sharp LISS-4 camera covers a strip three times wider than before.
Like Resourcesat-1, it carries three types of camera: LISS-4 for fine detail, LISS-3 for medium detail and AWiFS for wide views. The main upgrades were a wider LISS-4 colour strip, up from 23 km to 70 km, and finer brightness steps: 10 bits instead of 7 for LISS-3 and LISS-4, and 12 instead of 10 for AWiFS.
It also carries an experimental receiver from COMDEV of Canada that picks up the automatic identification signals ships send, giving their position and speed.
Resourcesat-2 weighed 1,206 kg at launch. Two 200 GB solid-state recorders store images until they can be sent down. It flies in a sun-synchronous polar orbit about 822 km high, crossing the equator at about 10:30 am, with a 24-day repeat cycle.
PSLV-C16 launched it from Sriharikota on 20 April 2011, with the Indo-Russian YouthSat and Singapore's X-SAT. A follow-on, Resourcesat-2A, was launched in December 2016.
The public satellite catalogue still carries Resourcesat-2 with an operational flag. That flag is not confirmation from ISRO that the satellite is still working, so treat its current status as unconfirmed.