REMOTE SENSING, IMAGING SAT
The AMAZONIA-1 is the first Earth Observation satellite totally designed, built, integrated and operated by Brazil.
On January 28th, 2021, AMAZONIA-1 was successfully launched in cooperation with ISRO from Sriharikota Range (SHAR), launching base in India, through a PSLV-C51 launching vehicle, 1:54 AM BRT.
Orbital speed: 7,47 km/s
Launching place: Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad
Total Cost: 300 milhões BRL (2021)
Manufacturer: INPE – Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Mission: Remote sensing
The project is controlled by The Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation (MCTI), and fully developed by INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Espacial) in partnership with AEB (Brazilian Aerospace Agency).
A reliable TT&C plus PDT (Payload Data Transmission) systems combined in the ground station service is essential for optimizing the application performance.
The images that have been generated since AMAZONIA-1 has entered its operational phase are available for free and through its catalogue you would find many images from all over Brazil.
AMAZONIA-1 is the first 3-axis stabilized satellite totally developed and produced in Brazil. The project was done by INPE, who also build it. It is equipped with a wide field camera, also developed by the Brazilian industry, called WFI (Wide Field Imaging Camera).
AMAZONIA-1 is also the first satellite to use INPE´s multi-mission platform as its service model (PMM).
PMM is a platform developed A800000-DDD-001/01 5 for a variety of Polar and Equatorial missions, ranging in between 600 and 1200km high, carrying up 300kg payload.
AMAZONIA-1 is capable of providing ~64m (nadir) resolution images, through a ~850km (across track) within 3 visible bands (blue, green and yellow) plus a 4th band near infrared.
It also has built-in recording capabilities for capturing images elsewhere over the globe and later download it over Brazil.
AMAZONIA1 is now on a polar synchronous sun orbit, at ~750km high. Its passing time is 10:30 in the morning, on descendent (crossing equator from North to South) re-visiting every 5 days, hence mapping the entire Brazilian territory every 5 days.
AMAZONIA1 is the third remote sensing Brazilian satellite, after CBERS-4 and CBERS-4A. It is a sun synchronous orbit satellite (polar), generating full set of planet images every 5 days. It has an wide sight optical imager (3-band visible spectrum (VIS)+ 1 near infrared band (NIR), capable of observing a a range of 850 km with 64 m resolution. Its orbit was planned to allow a high re-visit frequency, thus making possible to collect a significant quantity of data from a single point of the planet. On demand, AMAZONIA-1 would be able to provide data on a specific point within 2 days. It is an extremely valuable feature when it is the case of illegal deforestation in Amazon, for instance.
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