Information AboutRadarsat-2 |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT RADARSAT-2 | |
| space radars | |
| earth observation satellites | |
| canadian space program | |
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The prime contractor on the project is Macdonald Detweiller And Associates , who have previously built projects such as the Canadarm . Other collaborating companies include EMS Technologies and Alenia. RADARSAT-2 is a follow-on to RADARSAT-1 . It will have the same orbit, (798 km altitude sun-synchronous with 6 PM ascending node and 6 AM descending node). It is intended to fill a wide variety of roles, including agricultural crop monitoring, marine surveillance for ship and pollution detection, terrestrial defence surveillance and target identification, geological mapping, land use mapping, wetlands mapping, topographic mapping, sea ice mapping, iceberg detection, and ship routing. As of August 2005, Radarsat-2 was in the early stages of final assembly at the David Florida Laboratory , awaiting sub-components from the various contractors. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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