YouthSat


YouthSat is a Russian-Indian scientific-educational artificial satellite developed on the basis of an agreement between the Russian Federal Space Agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation. It is built using ISRO's Indian Mini Satellite-1 bus. YouthSat and Resourcesat-2 were launched on 20 April 2011 from Sriharikota, India.

Objectives

The satellite was launched on April 20, 2011 by PSLV-C16. It was injected in its target orbit along with X-Sat , 40 seconds after injecting Resourcesat-2.