Together with data from Copernicus Sentinel-1, the two-satellite Harmony constellation will deliver observations of ocean, sea ice, and solid ground.
Under the ESA contract, Thales Alenia Space will design, develop, and validate the C-Band SAR instruments for both Harmony satellites.
Thales Alenia Space played a key industry role during the Harmony preparatory phase by supporting ESA in defining a high-performing solution and developing relevant SAR enabling technologies.
Harmony is expected to be launched aboard a Vega-C launch vehicle by 2029.
Thales Alenia Space has been selected by the European Space Agency to lead a wide European industrial consortium for the Harmony mission based on its experience in radar-based Earth observation satellites.
The Endeavour will dock autonomously to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module about 3 a.m. Tuesday, 2024-03-05.
Endeavour is scheduled to dock with the Harmony module of the International Space Station at about 3 a.m. Eastern on 2024-03-05.
The Dragon spacecraft for Crew-8 will dock autonomously to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module at approximately 3:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, 2024-03-05.
During STS-120 in November 2006, Stephanie Wilson and her crewmates aboard Discovery delivered the Harmony module to the International Space Station and relocated a solar array.
On 2023-05-06, the Crew-6 vehicle completed a port relocation maneuver to the Harmony module’s Earth-facing port ahead of the arrival of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.
The Dragon spacecraft named Endurance will dock autonomously at the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 8:39 a.m. Sunday, 2023-08-27.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance docked with the zenith port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 9:16 a.m. Eastern on 2023-08-27.
The SpaceX Dragon will autonomously dock at the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module around 9:16 a.m. on Monday, 2023-05-22.
Dragon will dock autonomously to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module around 1:17 a.m. on Friday, 2023-03-03.
Dragon will dock autonomously to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module around 1:17 a.m. on Friday, 2023-03-03.
Dragon will dock autonomously to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module around 4:57 p.m. on Thursday, 2022-10-06.
Harmony is planned to provide communications between any location on or around the Moon, including cislunar orbit, and anywhere on Earth.
Plus Ultra is planning a lunar satellite constellation named Harmony to provide continuous, high-speed communications of up to 100 Mbps.
ispace’s Series 2 lander’s 2,000-kilogram carrying capacity to lunar orbit could allow a single mission to deploy more than one of the eight 400-kilogram Harmony satellites Plus Ultra plans to send to the moon.
Plus Ultra plans to launch its first Harmony satellite in the final quarter of 2023 with Rocket Factory Augsburg under an agreement signed in October.