Amazonia-1 Mission
2/28/2021
Amazonia-1 will launch under a commercial arrangement with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), an Indian government company under the Department of Space and the commercial arm of ISRO.
Amazonia-1 will operate in a Sun-synchronous orbit.
Amazonia-1 will be deployed to a mean altitude of 752 km in sun-synchronous orbit, while additional secondary rideshare spacecraft will be deployed at a lower altitude.
Amazonia-1 will be deployed to a mean altitude of 752 km in Sun-synchronous orbit.
Brazil plans to use Amazonia-1 for 'alert deforestation' monitoring in the Amazon region.
Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) designed Amazonia-1 to be optimized for observing the cloud-covered Amazon forest using infrared capabilities.
Amazonia-1 is designed to deliver remote sensing data for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon region and for analysis of diversified agriculture across Brazil.
PSLV-C51 injected the roughly 700-kilogram Amazonia-1 satellite into its intended Sun-synchronous orbit 17 minutes after launch.
As of December 31, 2020, INPE described Amazonia-1 as a fully Brazilian satellite intended to monitor and help protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation.
As of January 21, 2021, Amazonia-1 was scheduled to be launched by ISRO's PSLV-C51 mission on February 28, 2021 at 10:24 IST.
INPE reported that in the first week of February 2021 Amazonia-1 completed exclusive activities at the SHAR launch base SP1B laboratory and was transported to SP2B on February 5, 2021 for final processing and integration with the PSLV fourth stage.
As of February 5, 2021, ISRO stated that PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 was the first dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) undertaken under a commercial arrangement with Spaceflight Inc. USA.
A Twitter post by Spaceflight Inc. on 2021-02-02 announced that the company was working on the launch of Amazonia-1 on a PSLV.
As of February 5, 2021, ISRO stated that PSLV-C51 would launch Amazonia-1 of Brazil as the primary satellite and 20 co-passenger satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, with the launch tentatively scheduled at 1023 Hrs IST on February 28, 2021 subject to weather conditions.
The first Amazonia-1 satellite was launched on board an Indian PSLV in February 2021.
Marcy Mabry previously worked on the launch of the first Amazonia-1 satellite in 2021 using an Indian PSLV launcher.
Amazonia-1 and the under-construction Amazonia-1B are the first end-to-end Earth resources satellites fully developed in Brazil based on the Plataforma Multimissão (PMM).
Amazonia-1B is the direct successor to Amazonia-1, which launched in February 2021 on an Indian PSLV.
The Amazonia constellation will be tasked with monitoring deforestation in the Amazon region and supporting agricultural monitoring across Brazil.
The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch Brazil’s Amazonia-1 as the primary satellite and 20 co-passenger satellites on PSLV-C51.