Low-cost 1m GSD optical Earth observation satellite providing HD colour video from space.
Carbonite
Low-cost 1m GSD optical Earth observation satellite providing HD colour video from space.
Description
Carbonite is a low-cost Earth observation mission providing 1m GSD colour imagery and HD colour video from a 500km altitude orbit. It employs a Forward Motion Compensation (FMC) imaging mode enabling captures of over 120 seconds of a single target. Carbonite-1, launched in July 2015, demonstrated low-cost 1m GSD imagery, and was followed by Carbonite-2 in January 2018, which provided the world's first commercial HD colour video from space. Applications include change detection, pattern-of-life assessments, humanitarian and disaster management, global high resolution situational awareness, national security, elevation model generation and infrastructure/asset monitoring. A constellation of Carbonite satellites provides high revisit rates and robustness against weather conditions and target concealment.
Specifications
| GSD | 1 m |
|---|---|
| Swath | 5.5 km |
| Spectral bands | Optical (RGB Bayer) |
| Throughput | >200 images/day depending on GSN |
| Reference orbit | 500 km SSO with 10:30 LTAN |
| Mission lifetime | 5 years |
| Launch mass | 107 kg |
| Data storage | 120 GB |
| Downlink | 400 Mbps |
