TerraSAR-X Mission

Objectives and Applications

Cartography, land surface, civil planning and mapping, digital terrain models, environmental monitoring.

Mission Summary

Full Name
TerraSAR-X
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
DLR
Launch Date
15 Jun 2007
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2025
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
94.85 minutes
Orbit Sense
Ascending
Orbit Inclination
97.4 deg
Orbit Altitude
514 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
18:00
Repeat Cycle
11 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

GPSRO (Terra-SAR) - GPS Radio Occultation System
X-Band SAR - X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAtmospheric Humidity Fields GPSRO (Terra-SAR)
Atmospheric Temperature Fields GPSRO (Terra-SAR)
LandAlbedo and reflectance X-Band SAR
Landscape topography X-Band SAR
Vegetation X-Band SAR
Multi-purpose imagery (land) X-Band SAR
OceanOcean topography/currents X-Band SAR
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) X-Band SAR
Snow & IceSnow cover, edge and depth X-Band SAR
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness X-Band SAR

Featured Datasets

TerraSAR-X ESA Archive
Jan-2007
TerraSAR-X operates alongside its twin, TanDEM-X, which form a pair of German SAR satellites created and operated in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the German Aerospace Centre DLR and Airbus Defence and Space. The scientific objective of the missions is to make multi-mode and high-resolution X-band radar data available for a wide spectrum of applications in fields such as hydrology, geology, climatology, oceanography, and disaster monitoring. The collection is composed by the copy of products requested by ESA supported projects over their areas of interest around the world, and ESA offers access via the TPM scheme. - Read more
TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X Full Archive and Tasking
Jan-2007
TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X are twin German SAR satellites created and operated in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the German Aerospace Centre DLR and Airbus Defence and Space. The scientific objective of the missions is to make multi-mode and high-resolution X-band radar data available for a wide spectrum of applications in fields such as hydrology, geology, climatology, oceanography, and disaster monitoring. ESA offers access to worldwide TerraSAR-X/Tandem-X data (both archived and new acquisitions) and WorldDEM products via the TPM scheme. - Read more

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