Operator
German Aerospace Center (DLR)Manufacturer
German Aerospace Center (DLR)Tandem-X
6/21/2010
StriX data will complement Airbus Defence and Space’s TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and PAZ radar satellite constellation to increase imaging frequency and expand observation areas.
Airbus can offer synthetic aperture radar imaging through Germany’s TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites and Spain’s Paz satellite, enabling imaging through clouds and at night.
Airbus currently has three radar satellites—TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and the Spanish partner Hisdesat’s PAZ—which will be operated in a constellation.
Airbus Defence and Space performs interferometry by revisiting locations in four to seven days with TerraSAR‑X and Tandem‑X operating in a constellation with Hisdesat’s Paz satellite.
The SARah-1 radar instrument is a further development of the Airbus-built TerraSAR, TanDEM-X, and PAZ Earth observation satellites.
Susanna Ebmeier used European datasets including Copernicus Sentinel-1, the Italian Space Agency’s CosmoSkyMed, and the German Aerospace Center’s TerraSAR and Tandem-X for her volcanic deformation research.
The Copernicus program includes satellite data from third parties, such as data from Germany's TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites.
DLR is developing new concepts for next-generation radar satellites to build upon the success of TanDEM-X.
The 3D radar data from TanDEM-X is utilized in research, commercial applications, and security.
The TanDEM-X satellite operates at a calibrated distance of approximately 20 kilometers behind TerraSAR-X.
Dr. Anke Pagels-Kerp stated that TanDEM-X has set a technological milestone in radar remote sensing.
In October 2010 controllers maneuvered TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X into a close formation a few hundred meters apart.
An agreement formalized during the European Space Conference in Brussels extends the partnership between Airbus Defence and Space and Hisdesat for commercialization of radar imagery from the PAZ satellite in constellation with the German TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites.
The agreement extends the existing partnership to commercialize PAZ radar images in constellation with the German TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites that began in 2018.
The Radar Constellation consists of three commercially available radar sensors: the German TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X satellite formation and the Spanish PAZ satellite owned and managed by Hisdesat.
Airbus’s satellite fleet includes optical and radar constellations that provide complementary services with diversified resolutions, all-weather capability, and day-and-night operability.