| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
AOS-Sky
Atmosphere Observing System - Sky
| NASA / ECCC / USask / UQAM / CSA | Considered | 2031 | 2036 | 3-year nominal mission life, 5-year goal. Study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, storm dynamics, energy and water cycles. The mission comprises a spacecraft with Doppler radar, microwave radiometer, backscatter Lidar, Polarimeter, and Far-Infrared imaging radiometer instruments. | AOS-Sky Lidar, AOS-Sky Microwave Radiometer, AOS-Sky Polarimeter, AOS-Sky Radar, TICFIRE | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 450 km
Period:
Inclination: 97.2 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 13:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: TBD
Links: mission site | data access |
CO2Image
CO2Image
| DLR | Considered | 2026 | 2029 | Mission Goal: The mission shall demonstrate the feasibility of verifying carbon dioxide emissions from localized sources such as coal-fired power plants down to medium source strength (>1 MtCO2/yr) worldwide. Application: Independent verification of reported emissions as a cornerstone toward emission accounting and reduction measures such as agreed on in the Paris climate agreement. In 2018, coal-fired power plants accounted for 30% of the global man-made carbon dioxide emissions. | COSIS | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 500 km
Period: 92.2 mins
Inclination:
Repeat cycle:
LST: 11:00:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
EPS-Aeolus
EUMETSAT Polar System - Aeolus
| EUMETSAT / ESA | Considered | 2034 | 2044 | 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 sitedata access |
GEOSAR
Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar
| ASI | Considered | 2031 | 2046 | 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. | | 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 |
TanDEM-L
TanDEM-L
| DLR / HRC | Considered | 2028 | 2040 | Global observation of dynamic processes in the bio-, cryo-, geo- and hydrosphere. | L-Band SAR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 745 km
Period: 99.7 mins
Inclination: 98.4 deg
Repeat cycle: 16 days
LST: 18:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
TerraSAR-Fox
TerraSAR Follow-On X-band Mission
| DLR | Considered | 2032 | 2037 | Ground movement monitoring, change detection, infrastructure monitoring, agriculture and forestry, maritime applications, civil security, digital elevation models (DEMs). | X-Band SAR | Type:
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Links: mission sitedata access |