SAOCOM 1B Satellite Mission Summary

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Full Name

Satélite Argentino de Observación COn Microondas 1B

Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

CONAE , ASI

Launch Date

30 Aug 2020

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

Aug 2025

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

46265 (TLE)

International Designator

2020-059A

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

Objectives and Applications

Earth observation and emergency management with an L-band SAR, soil moisture for agriculture and hydrology (main driver), interferometry.

Mission Measurements

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

Mission Instruments

SAR-L - L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar

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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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