| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
EPS-Aeolus
EUMETSAT Polar System - Aeolus
| EUMETSAT / ESA | Considered | 2034 | 2041 | Aeolus-2 will provide global wind profile measurements for Numerical Weather Prediction using backscattered UV laser light to measure Doppler shifts. It will also provide atmospheric aerosol profiles.
In addition, Radio Occultation profiles will be obtained to determine atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles using Galileo, GPS and Beidou.
LST is 18:00 (on an Ascending Node) ad at 06:00 (for a dawn-dusk orbit)
| ALADIN-2, RO | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 395 km
Period: 92.3 mins
Inclination:
Repeat cycle: 28 days
LST: 18:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
GEOSAR
Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar
| ASI | Considered | 2031 | 2041 | Acquire SAR images from quasi geostationary orbit, in order to provide: continuous monitoring of fast evolving geophysical processes, over large areas and with time scales of the order of hours; pairs of daily interferometric images (two interferometric passes per day over the entire national territory) for DInSAR applications; acquisitions with sub-daily frequency for change detection applications with intervals of the order of hours; different line of sight compared to LEO SAR missions thanks to the predominant north-south observation geometry; rapid access time to the area of ??interest and rapid response to events, with almost immediate availability of the acquired data.
Main applications: monitoring of landslides and ground displacements, seismic and volcanic phenomena, terrain and infrastructure stability, flood mapping, soil moisture and water vapor maps. | GEO SAR | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 35786 km
Period: 1436 mins
Inclination:
Repeat cycle: 1 day
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: N/A
Links: |
SARE-2A (S2)
SARE-2A (S2)
| CONAE | Considered | 2030 | 2033 | Earth observation with high spatial resolution, emergencies, agriculture, land use/land cover, change detection, urban environment, cartography, stereo acquisitions for DEM generation. | CAR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 550 km
Period: 95.6 mins
Inclination: 97.6 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |
SARE-2A (S3)
SARE-2A (S3)
| CONAE | Considered | 2031 | 2035 | Earth observation with high spatial resolution, emergencies, agriculture, land use/land cover, change detection, urban environment, cartography, stereo acquisitions for DEM generation. | CAR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 550 km
Period: 95.6 mins
Inclination: 97.6 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |
SARE-2A (S4)
SARE-2A (S4)
| CONAE | Considered | 2032 | 2036 | Earth observation with high spatial resolution, emergencies, agriculture, land use/land cover, change detection, urban environment, cartography, stereo acquisitions for DEM generation. | CAR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 550 km
Period: 95.6 mins
Inclination: 97.6 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |