ISRO-CNES SARAL Mission
- Paper number
IAC-07-B1.1.09
- Author
Mr. D.V.A. Raghava Murthy, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), ISAC, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Pierre Sengenès, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
- Year
2007
- Abstract
Satellite with ARGOS and ALTIKA named as SARAL mission is a joint ISRO-CNES mission envisaged to carry two payloads provided by CNES on the Small Satellite Bus (SSB) of ISRO. This spacecraft Bus is under development with the configuration features that are comparable or better with respect to earlier operational spacecraft. The Bus design is made in such a way that the payload (sensor) module and Bus module are separated, so that interdependency is reduced between both. This allows the Bus to take different types of payloads with less than 15
The aim of ALTIKA / SARAL mission is to provide altimetric measurements designed to study ocean circulation and sea surface elevation with the same accuracy as the one provided by ENVISAT mission and complementary to Jason-2 mission.
ARGOS is a global satellite system dedicated to science applications such as meteorological observations, and environment study and protection, which is operated by the French National Space Research Centre (CNES) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of USA. The SARAL satellite carrying both the payloads is planned for launch by end 2009. The paper describes briefly the platform and mission of SARAL.
- Abstract document
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