BackForward Satellite: ROSE-L 

Satellite details
Acronym ROSE-L
Full name Copernicus Observation System for Europe in L-band
Satellite Description
  • One of the high-priority Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions.
  • Main mission: to support forest management, to monitor subsidence and soil moisture and to discriminate crop types  
  • Complementary mission: contribute to the monitoring of polar ice sheets and ice caps, sea-ice extent in the polar region, and of seasonal snow.
  • To operate in a constellation of (initially two) identical satellites, covering a period > 7 years.
  • For more details, see https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EarthObservation/Copernicus_L-band_SAR_mission_ROSE-L_MRD_v2.0_issued.pdf.
Mass at launch Dry mass
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Data access information
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 693 km
ECT 06:00 desc

 

Space agency ESA , EC, EUMETSAT
Status Considered
Details on Status
(as available)
  • Funding to be confirmed by EU.
Launch EOL
Last update: 2021-11-03
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 ROSE-L

Acronym Full name
ROSE-L Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band
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