RADARSAT-2 mission update

Author

Brûlé, Luc ; Baeggli, Hans

Author_Institution

Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Que., Canada

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2581

Abstract

RADARSAT-2, scheduled for launch in 2003, will be the next Canadian commercial Earth Observation SAR satellite. The past few years have seen a dramatically different evolution of the RADARSAT-2 program from the original proposal in both the baseline design and primary sub-contractors. This paper presents an overview of the mission, summarizes the changes that occurred, and presents the new baseline that has resulted and lists the revised sub-contractors line-up

Keywords

artificial satellites; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; CSA; Canadian Space Agency; ESS; MDA; RADARSAT; RADARSAT-2; SAR; artificial satellite; baseline; extendible support structure; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; mission update; overview; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Antenna arrays; Commercialization; Job shop scheduling; Payloads; Phased arrays; Proposals; Satellites; Space technology; Space vehicles; Weight control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978095

Filename

978095