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Asterra gathers data from Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 and from Saocom 1A and 1B radar satellites built by Argentina’s space agency and operated jointly with the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed constellation.
CONAE partnered with the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina to develop and test the Saocom L-band phased array antennas.
CONAE signed a launch contract with SpaceX for the Saocom satellites in 2009 with launches originally expected in 2012 and 2013.
Argentina’s space agency CONAE delayed the 2020-03-30 launch of its SAOCOM 1B satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 because COVID-19 restrictions raised questions about the agency’s ability to support the launch and on-orbit commissioning.
The Falcon 9 booster used on 2019-11-11 previously launched 10 Iridium Next satellites in 2018-07-01, CONAE’s Saocom-1A in 2018-10-01, and PSN’s Nusantara Satu in 2019-02-01.
INVAP built the Saocom-1A synthetic aperture radar satellite and developed the yet-to-launch Satcom-1B SAR satellite for the Argentine space agency CONAE.
The Falcon 9 booster that launched on 2019-02-21 was making its third flight after prior missions in July carrying 10 Iridium Next satellites and in October carrying a radar satellite for Argentina’s CONAE.
CONAE will operate Saocom-1A as part of the Argentine-Italian System of Satellites with the Italian Space Agency and will coordinate observations with Italy’s four Cosmo-SkyMed X-band SAR satellites.
CONAE contracted Saocom-1A in 2009 with an initial planned launch in 2012 that subsequently slipped.
Saocom-1A is a 3,000-kilogram synthetic aperture radar satellite for the Argentine space agency CONAE.
CONAE signed up for two Falcon 9 launches when SpaceX had only flown the smaller Falcon 1 vehicle.