NovaSAR S

Also called NovaSAR 1

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General

Designation	43619 / 18071B
Launch date	16 Sep 2018
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	580 km, sun-synchronous (10:30)
Inclination	97.8°
Period	96.3 min
Launch vehicle	PSLV #45

S-band SAR demonstrator (the SAR is built by ADS)
Australia's CSIRO will get a 10% share, providing tasking and data acquisition capabilities with commercial licence for Australia

The SAR payload has a dedicated maritime mode designed with a very wide swath area of 400km to enable the monitoring of the marine environment, and will provide direct radar ship detection information simultaneously with AIS ship tracking data to assist with the identification and tracking of sea-going vessels.

In addition to operating in maritime mode, the satellite has been optimised with three additional imaging modes, including a six metre resolution imaging mode, for a range of other applications, such as flood monitoring and agricultural and forestry applications.

Resolution range: 6-30 m with 400 km swath width

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Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	SSTL
Platform	SSTL-300
Mass at launch	445 kg
Dry mass
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime	7 years

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