VRSS-1
It was built and launched by the Chinese and has been named after Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda.[4] The satellite was built after a contract between Venezuela and China was signed in Caracas on 26 May 2011, and follows from their previous collaboration on VENESAT-1.It is controlled from the Base Aeroespacial Capitán Manuel Ríos in El Sombrero, Guárico and managed by Venezuela's Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities.It was launched by a Long March 2D rocket which put the satellite into low Earth orbit.It was given the international designator 2012-052A and the United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 38782.
earth observation satelliteBolivarian Agency for Space ActivitiesCOSPAR IDSATCAT no.China Great Wall Industry CorporationChina Academy of Space TechnologyChang Zheng 2DJiuquanLA-4/SLS-2Geocentriclow Earth orbitEccentricityPerigee altitudeApogee altitudeInclinationPeriodVenezuelanremote sensingVENESAT-1ChineseFrancisco de MirandaCaracasground stationChina Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationYaoganpanchromaticmultispectralGuáricoGround trackJiuquan Launch CentreLong March 2Dinternational designatorUnited States Space CommandSatellite Catalog NumberVRSS-2Space.com← 2011Orbital launches in 20122013 →Ziyuan III-01VesselSat-2Fengyun 2-07USA-233Progress M-14MALMASat-1XatcobeoUniCubeSat-GGROBUSTAe-st@rGoliatMaSat-1PW-SatCompass-G5MUOS-1Edoardo Amaldi ATVIntelsat 22Kosmos 2479Apstar 7USA-234Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3Progress M-15MRISAT-1USA-235Tianhui 1BYaogan 14Soyuz TMA-04MJCSAT-13Vinasat-2Kosmos 2480Nimiq 6SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2New FrontierYaogan 15Intelsat 19NuSTARShenzhou 9USA-236Quasar 18USA-237Orion 8EchoStar XVIISoyuz TMA-05MKounotori 3We-WishNiwakaTechEdSatBelKA-2Tianlian I-03Gonets-MKosmos 2481Progress M-16MSfera-53Intelsat 20HYLAS 2Telkom-3Ekspress-MD2Intelsat 21RBSP-ARBSP-BPROITERESMetOp-BAstra 2FGSAT-10USA-239SpaceX CRS-1Shijian 9-01Shijian 9-02Intelsat 23Soyuz TMA-06MProgress M-17MLuch 5BYamal-300KEutelsat 21BStar One C3Meridian 6Huanjing 1CEchoStar XVIYaogan 16AYaogan 16BYaogan 16CChinaSat 12Pléiades-HR 1BEutelsat 70BYamal-402USA-240Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2