ALOS-4 Satellite Mission Summary

Environmental monitoring, disaster monitoring, civil planning, agriculture and forestry, Earth resources, land surface.

Full Name

Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4
aka DAICHI-4

Mission Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

JAXA

Launch Date

01 Jul 2024

Mission Links

mission site |

EOL Date

Jun 2031

EO Portal Info

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

97 minutes

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

97.9 deg

Orbit Altitude

628 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

12:00

Repeat Cycle

14 days

NORAD Catalog #

60182

International Designator

2024-123A

PALSAR-3 - Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-3

SPAISE3 (AIS) - SPace based AIS Experiment 3rd (SPAISE3)

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Winds	PALSAR-3
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	PALSAR-3
Land	Albedo and reflectance	PALSAR-3
	Landscape topography	PALSAR-3
	Soil moisture	PALSAR-3
	Vegetation	PALSAR-3
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	PALSAR-3
Ocean	Ocean surface winds	PALSAR-3
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	PALSAR-3, SPAISE3 (AIS)
Snow & Ice	Ice sheet topography	PALSAR-3
	Snow cover, edge and depth	PALSAR-3
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	PALSAR-3

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