CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- SAOCOM 1A
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Full Name
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Satélite Argentino de Observación COn Microondas 1A
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Status
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Operational (nominal)
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Mission Agencies
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CONAE , ASI
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Launch Date
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07 Oct 2018
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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Oct 2023
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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43641 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2018-076A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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97.2 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Ascending
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Orbit Inclination
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97.89 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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620 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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05:57:45
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Repeat Cycle
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16 days
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Objectives and Applications
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Earth observation and emergency management with an L-band SAR, soil moisture for agriculture and hydrology (main driver), interferometry.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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Featured Datasets
More Datasets
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SAOCOM 1A
Oct-2019
| The SAOCOM Catalog is freely accessible and without prior registration you will be allowed to search for available products and view the thumbnails of them. To access other functionalities (product downloads, processing orders or management of new acquisitions) it is necessary to be registered, have an Agreement with CONAE and sign the corresponding license to use SAOCOM products.
Read more 
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SAOCOM Data Products
Jan-2018
| The SAOCOM (Satélite Argentino de Observación Con Microondas) satellite series
represents Argentina’s polarimetric L-band SAR constellation of two spacecraft
(SAOCOM-1A and SAOCOM-1B), a program defined, managed and operated by
CONAE (Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales), Argentina’s Space Agency
in Buenos Aires. The overall objective of SAOCOM is to provide effective Earth
observation and disaster monitoring capability. On the basis of an agreement between the ESA TPM scheme and the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), data are available
through the ASI SAOCOM Data Hub. Read more
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