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Launch Date
12/14/2007
Launch Site
GIK-5 LC31
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Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-FG Fregat (Soyuz Family)
Jena-Optronik delivered the Fine Sun Sensor FSS for ASTRIUM's GSTB-V2, Alenia's Radarsat-2, and the CosmoSkymed satellite constellation.
Canada operates the RADARSAT-2 and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission synthetic aperture radar satellites.
SecureWatch aggregates electro-optical imagery from WorldView satellites and SAR data from Radarsat-2 through a single interface.
Maxar is using DigitalGlobe sales channels to market radar products from MDA Corp.’s Radarsat-2 satellite.
Radarsat-2 was launched in December 2007 and remains in service despite being far beyond its seven-year design life.
Radarsat-2 provides more than 75,000 images per year.
Radarsat-2 launched in 2007.
Radarsat-2 is a taskable satellite that provides imagery and data to government and commercial customers around the world.
Radarsat-2 offers coverage from 144 to 265,000 square kilometers per scene and has 20 imaging modes.
Radarsat-2 was built by MDA through a public-private partnership with the Canadian government.
Customers will be able to task the new MDA SAR satellite to obtain imagery within one hour, compared with four hours for Radarsat-2.
Radarsat-2 continues to provide data and imagery to government and commercial customers.
RADARSAT-2 delivers products and services supporting marine surveillance, ice monitoring, disaster management, environmental monitoring, resource management, and mapping.
RADARSAT-2 offers over 20 imaging modes and has established customers in over 45 countries.
MDA owns and operates RADARSAT-2, a commercial broad-area imaging satellite.
MDA operates the Radarsat-2 satellite.
Canada cut off the flow of RADARSAT-2 data to Ukraine on 2016-05-06.
Canadian government sources identified RADARSAT-2 as the satellite that will be used to collect the SAR data.
The transfer of RADARSAT-2 imagery to Ukraine under the 2015 initiative was stopped by Canada’s government in 2016 amid concerns the imagery was being used to attack specific targets in eastern Ukraine and because bureaucratic rules limited the data’s effectiveness.
Canada previously provided RADARSAT-2 imagery to Ukraine as part of an initiative announced in February 2015.