Satellite Digest-432

摘要

1. First two satellites in the eight-satellite Huanjing ("environment") constellation. Huanjing 1A carries a CCD camera and a hyper-spectral camera, while 1B carries a CCD camera and an infra-red antenna. 2. GeoEye 1 (OrbView 5) is an Earth-imaging satellite, launched for GeoEye (previously Orblmage). Satellite carries a high resolution panchromatic and multispectral camera: the resolution is 0.41 metres for the panchromatic (black and white) images and 1.64 metres for multispectral (colour) images. 3. Unmanned cargo freighter, launched to the International Space Station (mission ISS-30P). Docked at the ISS/Zvezda rear port Sep 17.61: the docking was delayed from the planned 13 September because of the weather problems at the NASA Johnson Space Flight Center.