SAOCOM 1A Mission

Objectives and Applications

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

Mission Summary

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
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

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

Mission Instruments

SAR-L - L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAtmospheric Winds SAR-L
LandLandscape topography SAR-L
Soil moisture SAR-L
Vegetation SAR-L
Multi-purpose imagery (land) SAR-L
OceanOcean topography/currents SAR-L
Ocean surface winds SAR-L
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) SAR-L
Snow & IceIce sheet topography SAR-L
Snow cover, edge and depth SAR-L
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness SAR-L

Featured Datasets

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
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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