TrueColour
SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology)
Medium resolution, wide swath multispectral Earth observation satellite built on the Carbonite platform.
Technical specifications
- GSD
- 5 m
- Swath
- 120 km
- Spectral bands
- Multispectral, 9 bands 433-907 nm
- Throughput
- 500,000 km2 daily coverage
- Reference orbit
- 600 km SSO with 10:30 LTAN
- Mission lifetime
- 5 years
- Launch mass
- ~125 kg
- Data storage
- 120 GB
- Downlink
- 140 Mbps
About
TrueColour provides a medium spatial resolution and multi-spectral imaging option in SSTL’s Carbonite-based Earth observation series, with a wide swath imager operating in 9 selected spectral bands from 433-907nm. The combination of resolution, swath and spectral bands supports applications including forestry, agriculture, maritime monitoring, mapping and planning, and disaster support, with claimed daily coverage of up to 500,000 km2.
Documentation
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