CBERS-2

China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite 2, also known as Ziyuan I-02 or Ziyuan 1B, was a remote sensing satellite operated as part of the China–Brazil [Earth Resources Satellite program] between the Chinese Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application of [People's Republic of China|Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application] and Brazilian National Institute for Space Research. The second CBERS satellite to fly, it was launched by China in 2003 to replace CBERS-1.
CBERS-2 was a spacecraft built by the China Academy of Space Technology and based on the Phoenix-Eye 1 satellite bus. The spacecraft was powered by a single solar array, which provided 1,100 watts of electricity for the satellite's systems. The instrument suite aboard the CBERS-2 spacecraft consisted of three systems: the Wide Field Imager produced visible-light to near-infrared images with a resolution of and a swath width of ; a high-resolution CCD camera was used for multispectral imaging at a resolution of with a swath width of ; the third instrument, the Infrared Multispectral Scanner, had a resolution of and a swath width of.
A Chang Zheng 4B carrier rocket, operated by the China Academy of [Launch Vehicle Technology], was used to launch CBERS-2. The launch took place at 03:16 UTC on 21 October 2003, using Taiyuan [Launch Complex 7|Launch Complex 7] at the Taiyuan [Satellite Launch Center]. The satellite was successfully placed into a Sun-synchronous orbit.
Following the launch of CBERS-2B in 2007, CBERS-2 was retired from service. As of 1 December 2013, the dericict satellite remains in orbit, with a perigee of, an apogee of, 98.17 degrees inclination and a period of 100.33 minutes. Its orbit has a semimajor axis of, and eccentricity of 0.0001886.