Daichi-2
Spacecraft · Japan
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Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2, placed in a noon/midnight sun-synchronous orbit. Carried the PALSAR-2 radar imager with 1 to 3 meter resolution in spotlight mode and 3 to 10 m in high resolution mode.
Related
- Family
- Surveillance
- Country
- Japan
- Launch Vehicles
- H-IIA 202
- Launch Sites
- Tanegashima Y.
- Daichi-2 - .
- Payload
- ALOS 2
- Mass
- 2,120 kg (4,670 lb)
- Nation
- Japan
- Class
- Surveillance
- Type
- Military Radarsat
- Spacecraft Bus
- Daichi
- Spacecraft
- Daichi-2
- USAF Sat Cat
- 39766
- COSPAR
- 2014-029A
- Apogee
- 632 km (392 mi)
- Perigee
- 630 km (390 mi)
- Inclination
- 97.92 deg
- Period
- 97.33 min. Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2, placed in a noon/midnight sun-synchronous orbit. Carried the PALSAR-2 radar imager with 1 to 3 meter resolution in spotlight mode and 3 to 10 m in high resolution mode.