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Indian National SATellite (Insat)
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This page contains philatelic information on the Insat (Indian National SATellite) series and MetSat / Kaplana. Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the satellites featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
Many early Insat had dual meteorological/communications functions, but most later Insat had only telecommunications capabilities. This page contains only those Insat [with meteorological instrumentation]. The [complete] Insat-series, including Insat-3D and Insat-3DR (dedicated meteorological satellites), are found in a separate page.
| Launch information (found elsewhere) |
Launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers) (farther below or elsewhere) |
Other postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) (immediately below or elsewhere) |
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| Insat (India) [with meteorological instrumentation] | Insat (India) [with meteorological instrumentation] | Insat (India) [with meteorological instrumentation] |
| Insat (on other than Insat launch covers) | ||
| MetSat / Kalpana (India) | MetSat / Kalpana (India) | MetSat / Kalpana (India) |
Below is a list of Insat series and MetSat / Kalpana postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
| Country | Catalog Number | Type of Item | Year of Issue | Notes on Content |
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| Insat (India) [with meteorological instrumentation] | ||||
| Benin | Unknown a (Mi none) Unknown ia | One of MS4 (a-d) [known illegal issue] One of imperforate MS4 (a-d) | 2014 | Insat-3C launch (also launch date in text) |
| Benin | Unknown a-d fdc | One of four stamps on FDC | ||
| Benin | Unknown a proof Unknown ia proof | One of MS4 proof (a-d) One of imperforate MS4 proof (a-d) | ||
| Benin | Unknown ms proof | Signed-proof MS4 (a-d) | ||
| Benin | Unknown ms proof fdc Unknown ims proof fdc | MS4 proof and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC Imperforate MS4 proof on FDC | ||
| Chad | 675a (Mi1418) | In (upper-right) margin of SS1 (675) | 1998 | Insat-2B |
| Guinea Republic | BL840A fdc | (Multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | 2003 | Insat-3C |
| Guinea Republic | BL841A fdc | (Multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| Guinea Republic | Mi4177A Mi4177B | From MS8 (8x Mi4177A) Imperforate | 2005 | "Insat-3A" |
| Guinea Republic | BL881A BL881B | On stamp of SS1 (Mi4177A) On stamp of imperforate SS1 (Mi4177B) | ||
| Guinea Republic | BL888A BL888B | One of MS2 (Mi4176A-4177A) One of imperforate MS2 (Mi4176B-4177B) | ||
| India | None | Inland letter sheet | 198? | Insat-1 |
| India | 1020 (Mi953) | 1983 | Insat-1 | |
| India | 1746 (Mi1685) | 1999 | Insat-1 | |
| Libya | 1306a (Mi1659) | One of MS6 (1306 (a-f)) (Mi1659-1664) | 1986 | Insat-1 |
| Niger | 1075d (Mi1950A) i1075d (Mi1950B) | One of MS6 (1075 (a-f)) (Mi1947A-1952A) One of imperforate MS6 (i1075 (a-f)) | 2001 | "Insat-1A" |
| Niger | 1075 fdc | MS6 on FDC | ||
| Pakistan | 1023 (Mi?) | From MS20 (1023a (20x 1023)), also annotated | 2003 | Insat-1 |
| Pakistan | 1023 fdc | Stamp and cachet (annotated) on FDC, also back | ||
| Pakistan | 1023 leaflet | Leaflet, also back | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown e (Mi?) Unknown ie | One of MS9 (a-i) One of imperforate MS9 (a-i)) | 2005 | Insat-3C |
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown iss (BL?) | On stamp of imperforate SS1 | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ims fdc1 | Imperforate MS9 on FDC (black cancel) | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ims fdc2 | Imperforate MS9 on FDC (red cancel) | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown d+e+f fdc Unknown id+ie+if fdc | One of three stamps on FDC One of three imperforate stamps on FDC | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | 1977 (BL679) | SS1 | 2009 | "Insat-3C" (on stamp), Insat-1A (in upper-right margin) |
| Spain | None | (Multi-color printed) cachet on (un-canceled) (Spanish Post) stamped envelope (from 2011) | 2013 | "Insat-3D" [meteorological only] |
| Venezuela | 1576i (Mi3127) | One of MS10 (1576 (a-j)) (Mi3123-3132) | 1997 | "Insat-1B" |
| MetSat / Kalpana (India) | ||||
| India | None | (Lupex pictorial) cancel on cover | 2003 | MetSat-1 / "Kalpana-1" |
Below is a list of Insat series and MetSat / Kalpana launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers).
| Country | Cancel Date | Cancel Location | Type of Item | Notes on Content |
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| Insat (India) [with meteorological instrumentation] | ||||
| 1982-04-10: Insat-1A | ||||
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL | (SCCS) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Greenbelt MD | (GSFC Stamp Club) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Greenbelt MD | (GSFC Stamp Club) cachet (and signature) on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL (machine cancel) | (Whitney orange and green and black) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL (hand cancel) | (Whitney orange and green and black) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Centennial) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Centennial-like) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Centennial-like) cachet (different) on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Centennial-like) cachet (different) on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-10 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Space Voyage) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-12 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Space Voyage) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| United States | 1982-04-12 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Red printed) cachet on cover | Insat-1A launch |
| 1983-08-30: Insat-1B (deployed by STS-8) | ||||
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Space Voyage) cachet on cover | STS-8 launch |
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Mission patch) cachet on cover, also insert | STS-8 launch |
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Mission patch/RCA) cachet on cover | STS-8 launch |
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Whitney black and magenta) cachet on cover | STS-8 launch |
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Greenbelt MD | (GSFC Shuttle Tracking Team blue rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | STS-8 launch |
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Centennial red rocket, type-1 and blue printed and blue hand-printed) cachet on cover | STS-8 launch (Pioneer-3/4 type, Pioneer-5/Explorer-62, and Vanguard-2 depicted) |
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Centennial-like) cachet (different) on cover | STS-8 launch |
| United States | 1983-08-30 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Centennial-like) cachet (different) on cover | STS-8 launch |
| United States | 1983-08-30 1983-08-14 1983-09-05 | (Kennedy Space Center FL) Kennedy Space Center FL Edwards AFB, CA | (Mission patch) cachet on cover; also folder p1/front, folder p2, folder p3, folder p4, folder p5, and folder p6/back | STS-8 launch STS-8 expected launch STS-8 landing |
| United States | 1983-08-31 | Houston TX | (Space Voyage) cachet on cover | Insat-1B deployed |
| United States | 1983-08-31 | Houston TX | (Colorano silk) cachet on cover | Insat-1B deployed |
| United States | 1983-08-31 | Houston TX | (SCCS) cachet on cover | Insat-1B deployed |
| United States | 1983-08-31 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Titusville-Moonport Stamp Club) cachet (and signature) on cover | Insat-1B deployed |
| United States | 1983-09-01 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Colorano silk) cachet on cover | "payload flight test article" |
| United States | 1983-09-03 | Houston TX | (Red-brown printed) cachet on cover | "Operational test" of TDRS-1 (in anticipation of its planned contribution to the STS-9 Spacelab-1 mission) |
| United States | 1983-09-03 | WSMR, NM | (Space Voyage purple and orange) cachet on cover | "Operational test" of TDRS-1 (in anticipation of its planned contribution to the STS-9 Spacelab-1 mission) |
| United States | 1983-09-05 | Greenbelt MD | (Greenbelt STDN Station black rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | STS-8 landing |
| United States | 1983-09-05 | Moffett Field CA | (NASA Ames Research Center) cachet on cover | STS-8 landing |
| United States | 1983-09-05 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Space Voyage) cachet on cover | STS-8 landing |
| United States | 1983-09-05 | Edwards AFB, CA | (Blue rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | STS-8 landing |
| United States | 1983-09-05 | Edwards CA | (SCCS) cachet on cover | STS-8 landing |
| United States | 1983-09-05 | Edwards CA | (Red-orange rubber-stamp) cachet (and signature) on (airmail) cover | STS-8 landing |
| United States | 1983-09-05 | Greenbelt MD | (GSFC Shuttle Tracking Team blue rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | STS-8 landing |
| 1988-07-21: Insat-1C (and Eutelsat-1-F5) | ||||
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (Aérospatiale Philatélie) cachet on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (ESTEC Philatelic Club) cachet on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (CPK) cachet on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (CPK) cachet (different) on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (CPK) cachet (different) on card | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (C.E. SEP Section Philatélie) cachet on card | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (Association philatélique du CNES) cachet on cover, also back | Insat-1C launch |
| French Guiana | 1988-07-21 | Kourou | (Association philatélique du CNES) cachet (different) on cover, also back | Insat-1C launch |
| France | 1988-07-22 | Paris | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| Netherlands | 1988-07-22 | Noordwijk | (Red pictorial) meter and (ESTEC Philatelic Club) cachet on cover | Insat-1C launch |
| 1990-06-12: Insat-1D1 | ||||
| United States | 1990-06-12 | Greenbelt MD | (GSFC Stamp Club) cachet on cover | Insat-1D launch |
| United States | 1990-06-12 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Edwin J. Isler? black and orange sticker) cachet on cover | Insat-1D launch |
| United States | 1990-06-12 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Carsten Fuchs/Ken Havekotte) cachet on cover | Insat-1D launch |
| 1992-07-09: Insat-2A (and Eutelsat-2-F4) | ||||
| French Guiana | 1992-07-09 | Kourou | (C.E. SEP Section Philatélie) cachet on cover | Insat-2A launch |
| French Guiana | 1992-07-09 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Insat-2A launch |
| French Guiana | 1992-07-09 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | Insat-2A launch |
| French Guiana | 1992-07-09 | Kourou | (ESA / KPS ?) cachet on cover | Insat-2A launch |
| 1993-07-22: Insat-2B (and Hispasat-1B) | ||||
| French Guiana | 1993-07-22 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Insat-2B launch |
| French Guiana | 1993-07-22 | Kourou | (C.E. SEP Section Philatélie) cachet on cover | Insat-2B launch (but "TDF" depicted) |
| French Guiana | 1993-07-22 | Kourou | (KPS?) cachets on cover | Insat-2B launch |
| French Guiana | 1993-07-22 | Kourou | (KPS?) cachet on card | Insat-2B launch |
| 1999-04-03: Insat-2E | ||||
| French Guiana | 1999-04-02 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Insat-2E launch |
| French Guiana | 1999-04-02 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | Insat-2E launch |
| French Guiana | 1999-04-02 | Kourou | (C.E. SEP Section Philatélie) cachet on cover | Insat-2E launch (reproductions of launch covers for the following satellites (Insat-2C and Telecom-2C, Intelsat-801, HotBird-1 and Brasilsat-B2, BSat-1b and Nilesat-101, MaqSat-B and MaqSat-H and TEAMSAT and YES) |
| Gabon | 1999-04-03 | Libreville | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Insat-2E launch |
| 2003-04-09: Insat-3A (and Galaxy-12) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2003-04-09 | Kourou | (Association Philatélique du C.E. SPS) cachet on cover | Insat-3A launch |
| 2002-01-23: Insat-3C | ||||
| French Guiana | 2002-01-23 | Kourou | (KPS) cachet on cover | Insat-3C launch |
| French Guiana | 2002-01-23 | Kourou | (Association Philatélique du C.E. SNECMA) cachet on cover | Insat-3C launch |
| 2013-07-25: Insat-3D [meteorological only] (and Inmarsat-4A-F4 / Alphasat) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2013-07-25 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Insat-3D launch |
| French Guiana | 2013-07-25 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | Insat-3D launch |
| French Guiana | 2013-07-25 | Kourou | (Historiaphil) cachet on cover | Insat-3D launch |
| French Guiana | 2013-07-25 | Kourou | (Association Philatélique du C.E. SPS) cachet on cover | Insat-3D launch |
| Insat (on other than Insat launch covers) | ||||
| French Guiana | 1998-04-28 | Kourou | (C.E. SEP Section Philatélie) cachet on BSat-1b and Nilesat-101 launch cover | (incorrectly noted as "Insat-2E" in text) |
| 2002-09-12: MetSat / Kalpana (India) | ||||
| No launch cover images available yet | ||||
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