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Satellite details
Acronym SEOSAR/Paz
Full name Satélite Español de Observación SAR (also Paz)
Satellite Description
  • Single flight unit of the SEOSAR/Paz programme.
  • Main missions: Earth observation and surveillance.
  • Significant contribution to temperature/humidity sounding and heavy precipitation detection (experimental).
Mass at launch 1341 kg Dry mass 1282 kg
Power
Data access link no link provided
Data access information
  • Data available from HISDESAT on commercial basis.
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 514 km
ECT 06:00 asc

 

Space agency MDE , CDTI
Status Operational
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch 22 Feb 2018 EOL ≥2023
Last update: 2022-11-03
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 SEOSAR/Paz

Acronym Full name
SAR-X Synthetic Aperture Radar (X-band)
ROHPP Radio Occultations and Heavy Precipitation with PAZ
LRR Laser Retro-Reflector
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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
SAR-X active 10 GHz - 9.65 GHz 0 MHz - X-band SAR