Objectives and Applications
Cartography, land surface, civil planning and mapping, digital terrain models, environmental monitoring.
Full Name
TerraSAR-X Add-on for Digital Elevation Measurements
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
21 Jun 2010
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2026
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 #s
International Designators
TOR - Tracking, Occultation and Ranging |
| X-Band SAR - X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar |
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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