Monday, October 13, 2014

Daichi 2

 2014-029A


JAXA Advanced Land Observing Satellite, ALOS-2

3.4m box with 9.9m SAR and 16.5m solar panel span. 14 day repeat orbit cf ALOS-1 46? days.

Launched into 12:00LTDN SSO.


ALOS-2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2014 May 24 0305:14  Launch by H2A  Y1 
  T+2:05 SRB-A sep 
  T+4:30 Fairing sep 
  T+6:36 MECO 
  T+6:44 St 1 sep 
 0312:04 T+6:50 SEIG at 320 km 3.1 km/s 
 0320:28 T+15:14 SECO 
 0321:18 T+16:04 ALOS sep 
 0329:52 T+24:38 RISING-2 sep 
 0334:24 T+29:10 Uniform-1 sep 
 0338:34 T+33:20 Socrates sep 
 0342:44 T+37:30 SPROUT sep 
2014 May 27    97.38 630 x 635 x 97.9  
2014 Jul 19    97.33 629 x 632 x 97.9 

Payload:

  • PALSAR-2 L-band SAR 3 x 10m, 5.1 kW, 25 to 490 km swath, 1.257 GHz, 3m resolution

  • SPAISE-2 AIS receiver

  • SOFIE SOI-FPGA In-orbit Eval. Equipment to test Si-on-insulator diode focal plane array, with CIRC?

  • CIRC Compact IR Camera, MELCO. - IR imagery for wildfire detection, 8-12 mu, 200m res

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