Progress in RADARSAT Follow-On Constellation Payload Design
- Paper number
IAC-05-B1.3.02
- Author
Mr. Arthur Baylis, EMS Technologies Canada, Ltd., Canada
- Year
2005
- Abstract
The Canadian Space Agency has recently announced the start of a new three satellite Radar constellation program that will provide more timely and comprehensive data than is currently available, and the ability to track ice conditions and support ship navigation in the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes and along Canadian coastlines. The all weather coverage provided by this Synthetic Aperture Radar mission will also support disaster management by detecting oil spills, monitoring floods, aiding forest firefighting, and providing information on the evolution of disaster areas worldwide. The SmallSAT constellation will be launched by 2013, as a replacement to RADARSAT-2. This constellation will provide more frequent coverage than a single spacecraft, thereby improving revisit time, and will collect imagery with a ground resolution of approximately 5 metres, as compared to RADARSAT-2’s 3 metre resolution. Under contract to the Canadian Space Agency, EMS Technologies is performing a pre-Phase A study to develop concepts for a SmallSAT SAR payload that meets the needs of a C-Band SAR mission. The activities to date have focused on the identification, trade-off, and preliminary design of the selected payload and antenna concepts. This paper will present the results of these trade-offs.
- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
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