TanDEM-X Mission

Objectives and Applications

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

Mission Summary

Full Name
TerraSAR-X Add-on for Digital Elevation Measurements
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
DLR
Launch Date
21 Jun 2010
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2026
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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

TOR - Tracking, Occultation and Ranging
X-Band SAR - X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAtmospheric Humidity Fields TOR
Atmospheric Temperature Fields TOR
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/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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