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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)
The RADARSAT-2 archive includes more than 26 billion square kilometers of oceanic synthetic aperture radar data.
The RADARSAT-2 archive represents a 14-year historical record of the Earth and includes more than 970,000 images.
Global Fishing Watch intends to use the RADARSAT-2 archive to map illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing patterns using science-based analytics for international policymakers, conservationists, and researchers.
Radarsat-2 and the Radarsat Constellation Mission from Canada are being used to support operational sea-ice monitoring for the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service.
RADARSAT-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar and the integrated satellite data sources used by MDA can image hundreds of kilometres in a single image day or night and through all weather conditions.
The RADARSAT series includes RADARSAT-1 launched in 1995, RADARSAT-2 launched in 2007, and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission launched in 2019.
The RADARSAT series includes RADARSAT-1 (1995), RADARSAT-2 (2007), and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (2019).
Radarsat-2 is a satellite launched in 2007 by MDA and the Canadian Space Agency that is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar to gather imagery in all light and weather conditions.
DigitalGlobe is working with MDA to develop offerings that integrate Radarsat-2 SAR data into SecureWatch.
MDA is designing the follow-on to Radarsat-2, the C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite.
MDA will use the remainder of the IPO proceeds to invest in new projects, including a new SAR satellite called SARnext to replace the existing Radarsat-2 spacecraft.
MDA plans to deliver imagery and data from the Radarsat-2 follow-on to customers within 15 minutes of acquisition, compared with less than one hour for Radarsat-2.
Radarsat-2 was built by MDA in partnership with the Canadian government and launched in 2007.
MDA and ICEYE signed a distribution agreement that allows MDA to sell ICEYE’s existing and future X-band data to select RADARSAT-2 customers and to develop value-added products integrating C- and X-band SAR data.
MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA) is providing Global Fishing Watch with access to the company’s RADARSAT-2 satellite radar archive.
Maxar offers a mobile access terminal that enables users to downlink electro-optical imagery from Maxar satellites and radar imagery from MDA’s Radarsat-2 as well as imagery from other commercial satellites.
ESA and the European Commission are buying SAR data from other satellites, including Canada’s Radarsat-2 and Radarsat Constellation Mission, Germany’s TerraSAR-X, Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed, and Spain’s PAZ.