BackForward Satellite: ALOS-2 

Satellite details
Acronym ALOS-2
Full name Advanced Land Observing Satellite - 2
Satellite Description
  • 2nd flight unit of the ALOS programme.
  • Main mission: land observation.
  • Substantial contribution to ocean observation.
Mass at launch 2000 kg Dry mass
Power 5200 W
Data access link http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/index.htm
Data access information
  • Data distributed through a network of several ALOS Data Nodes (ADN), ideally one in each continent.
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 640 km
ECT 12:00 desc

 

Space agency JAXA
Status Operational
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch 24 May 2014 EOL ≥2022
Last update: 2021-12-27
Associated satellite programme and related satellites

Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational , blue tag : future

Satellite Payload

All known Instruments flying on ALOS-2

Acronym Full name
PALSAR-2 Phased-Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar - 2
CIRC Compact Infrared Camera
Show instrument status and calibration
Satellite frequencies for Earth Observation, data transfer and platform communications and control
Earth observation MW frequencies
Service Sensing mode Frequency (GHz) Bandwidth (MHz) Polarisation Comments
PALSAR-2 active 1 GHz - 1.27 GHz 0 MHz - L-band SAR