Objectives and Applications
Earth observation and emergency management with an L-band SAR, soil moisture for agriculture and hydrology (main driver), interferometry.
Full Name
Satélite Argentino de Observación COn Microondas 1A
Mission Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
07 Oct 2018
Mission Links
EOL Date
Oct 2025
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
97.2 minutes
Orbit Sense
Ascending
Orbit Inclination
97.89 deg
Orbit Altitude
620 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
05:57:45
Repeat Cycle
16 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
SAR-L - L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | SAR-L |
| Land | Landscape topography | SAR-L |
| Soil moisture | SAR-L |
| Vegetation | SAR-L |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | SAR-L |
| Ocean | Ocean topography/currents | SAR-L |
| Ocean surface winds | SAR-L |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | SAR-L |
| Snow & Ice | Ice sheet topography | SAR-L |
| Snow cover, edge and depth | SAR-L |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | SAR-L |
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.
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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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