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Summary

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 (ISRO). 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

Investigation of the composition of the upper surface of the earth.^[1]
Experimentation regarding the energy of the earth's crust.
To understand the dynamics of the earth surface.

Launch

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

References

^ "Resourcesat-2, Youthsat, X-Sat functioning satisfactorily". Deccan Herald. April 25, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
^ "Resourcesat-2, Youthsat, X-Sat launched". TOI. April 20, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2018.

External links

Official website
NSSDC ID: 2011-015B

Indian spacecraft

Satellites

Communication	CMS CMS-01 GSAT 1 2 3 (EDUSAT) 4 5P 6 6A 7 7A 8 9 (South Asia Satellite) 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 29 30 31 HAMSAT INSAT 1A 1B 1C 1D 2A 2B 2C 2D 2DT 2E 3A 3B 3C 3D 3DR 3DS 3E 4A 4B 4C 4CR 4E 4F 4G Planned: GSAT 20 22 23 24
Earth observation	Bhaskara I II Cartosat 1 2 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F 3 EMISAT EOS EOS-01 HySIS IMS-1 IRS 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E P1 P2 P3 Megha-Tropiques Microsat Microsat-R Oceansat 1 2 Resourcesat 1 2 RISAT 1 2 2B 2BR1 Rohini RS-D1 RS-D2 SARAL SCATSAT-1 Technology Experiment Satellite (TESS) Planned: NISAR GISAT Oceansat-3 Resourcesat-3 RISAT-1A
Experimental	APPLE Aryabhata Rohini RS-1 Rohini Technology Payload (RTP)
Navigation	IRNSS 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F 1G 1I
Student satellites	ANUSAT Jugnu SRMSAT StudSat StudSat-2 YouthSat Pratham

Space probes

Scientific	SROSS A B C C2
Astronomical	Astrosat Aditya-L1 (planned) XPoSat (planned) AstroSat-2 (planned)
Lunar programme	Chandrayaan-1 Moon Impact Probe Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Pragyan Chandrayaan-3 (planned)
Interplanetary	Mars Orbiter Mission Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (planned) Shukrayaan-1 (planned)

Human spaceflight

Indian human spaceflight programme
- SRE-1
- SRE-II
- SRE-III
Gaganyaan
- CARE

Future spacecraft in italics.

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Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( | ). Crewed flights are indicated in bold text. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in (brackets).