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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - RADARSAT-2 -

Full Name

RADARSAT-2

Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

CSA , MDA

Launch Date

14 Dec 2007

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

Apr 2024

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

32382 (TLE)

International Designator

2007-061A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

100.7 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

98.6 deg

Orbit Altitude

798 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

18:00

Repeat Cycle

24 days

Objectives and Applications

Environmental monitoring, physical oceanography, ice and snow, land surface. Note: Ownership of RADARSAT-2 has been transferred to MDA Corporation. CSA investment in the project is paid back with the data generated by the satellite since it entered operations.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Winds	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
Land	Albedo and reflectance	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Landscape topography	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Soil moisture	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Vegetation	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
Ocean	Ocean topography/currents	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Ocean surface winds	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Ocean wave height and spectrum	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
Snow & Ice	Ice sheet topography	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Snow cover, edge and depth	SAR (RADARSAT-2)
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	SAR (RADARSAT-2)