Remote Sensing Activities Of Nasda In Southeast Asia

Power
5000W (EOL)

Life
Designed Life 3 years
Propellant For 5 years

Orbit
Category Sun-synchronous sub-recurrent orbit
Altitude 802.9km
Inclination 98.62deg.
Period 101min.
Recurrent Period 4 days
Local Sun Time AM 10:30±15

Launch
Launch Vehicle H-IIA Rocket
Launch Site Tanegashima Space Center
Launch Period 2001 (Fiscal Year)

2.2 ALOS
The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) is a Satellite following the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 (JERS-1) and Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) which will utilize advanced land observing technology, The ALOS will be used for cartography, regional observation, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying.

The ALOS has three remote-sensing instruments: the Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) for digital elevation mapping, the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2) for precise land coverage observation, and the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) for day-and-night and all-weather land observation. The ALOS will be launched by an H-IIA launch vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Center in 2003.

2.2.1 Main Characteristics: Main Characteristics of ALOS are as follows.

Launch:
Japanese fiscal year 2003 / H-IIA Launch Vehicle
Tanegashima Space Center

Life:
3 - 5 years

Orbit:
Altitude=Approx. 700km, Sun-Synchronous Subrecurrent,
Inclination=Approx. 98deg., Period=Approx. 99min.,
Recurrent Perid=Approx. 45day,
Local time at Descending Node=10:30AM+-15min.

Weight:
Approx. 3,850kg (at lift-off)

Power:
Approx. 7000W (EOL)