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Satellite Programme:
Odin
Programme details
Programme description
Single-satellite programme, addressing chemistry of the upper atmosphere.
International programme led by Sweden: SNSB responsible of development and operations of the space segment; major contributions from CSA (Canadian Space Agency), France (CNES) and TEKES (National Technology Agency of Finland)].
The platform is actively stabilised over 3 axes.
The design life time is 2 years.
The satellite exploits a sunsynchronous dawn-dusk orbit at 6:00.
See detailed description at https://directory.eoportal.org/missions/odin .
Data circulation
The global data are stored onboard and downlinked to the Kiruna station.
Data processing is shared among several Swedish and foreign institutes, with central archive in Stockholm. The OSIRIS data are processed at the University of Saskatchewan, Sasketoon, Canada.
Agencies
SNSA
, CNES , CSA
Programme lifetime
2001 - 2022
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational
, blue tag => planned
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 released
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 was released including new features related to Gap Analysis and satellite status information. With version 2.6 OSCAR/Space has a new URL; https://space.oscar.wmo.int . Please read more via the link here .