Title :
RADARSAT-2 mission update
Author :
Brûlé, Luc ; Baeggli, Hans
Author_Institution :
Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Que., Canada
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978095
