CEOS WGISS 20 Meeting, Kiev, September 2005

BNSC Agency Report

Wyn CudlipBNSC/QinetiQ

wcudlip@space.qinetiq.com

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Kiev, September 2005

CEOS WGISS 20 Meeting, Kiev, September 2005

BNSC Instruments/Missions• Current Instruments

– ATSR2 on ERS-2 http://www.atsr.rl.ac.uk/

– AATSR on Envisat http://envisat.estec.esa.nl/instruments/aatsr/

– CHRIS on Proba http://www.chris-proba.org.uk/

– Disaster Management Constellation http://www.sstl.co.uk/

• Planned Small Satellites

– TopSat – launch on 27th September 2005– http://www.qinetiq.com/industries/space/spacecraft_technology/case_study_topsat/

• Planned Medium Satellites– TerraSAR L-Band http://www.infoterra-global.com/terrasar.html

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PROBA

• Project for On-Board Autonomy

• ESA mission (on Indian Launcher in 2000)

• Platform technology demonstrator

• 615 km sun synchronous orbit.

• Free ride for:

– CHRIS - Compact High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

– SREM - Radiation measurement sensor

– DDEBIE - debris measurement sensor

– Wide angle Earth pointing camera

– Star tracker and gyroscope

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CHRIS

• Compact High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

• operates from 400 nm to 1050 nm

• 14km swath

• 63 bands at 36m resolution

– or

• 18 bands at 18m resolution

• Science Team include:

– University of Swansea

– ESSC, University of Reading

– University of Plymouth

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Disaster Management Constellation (DMC)

• 32m res., 600km swath.

• 5 satellites planned; to provide daily coverage– UK, Algeria + others

• Surrey Satellite (SSTL) Platform.

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TerraSAR L-Band

• Working in tandem with German TerraSAR X-Band

• X-band: 1-3 m res.; twin polarisation.

• L-Band: 5m res.; multi-pol – (HH, HV, VH, VV).

• Launch 2007 - 5 year mission

• 25 Products Feed into InfoTerra – to satisfy wide-ranging commercial market place.

• Possible ESA involvement

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TopSat

• 1 year, experimental mission. Launch 2005.– to test novel mirror system in low-cost satellite

• 2.5m pan, 5m ms, 10x10km image size

• Data downloaded to low-cost mobile antenna to

• Based on Surrey Satellites Platform (SSTL).low-cost mobile ground station