Session
Technical Session VI: The Year Ahead
Abstract
To be launched in 2004, MACSAT is a 200kg satellite, designed to provide 2.5m ground sampling distance (GSD) resolution imagery on a near equatorial orbit (NEqO). The mission objective is to demonstrate the capability of a high-resolution remote sensing satellite system on a NEqO. Initi-ated by ATSB, the proprietary NEqO mission has advantages for monitoring the environment of equatorial regions of Malaysia with unique revisit characteristics from the baseline circular orbit of 7 degrees of inclination. For the designed duration of 3-year mission life, MACSAT is optimized to accommodate a Medium-sized Aperture Camera (MAC), a push-broom type camera with swath width of 20km. The spacecraft has +/-30 degrees of tilting and 30 Mbps class X-band downlink capability. This paper describes the overview of the MACSAT program, focusing on the key technical and opera-tional aspects of the mission, and provides an update to the status of the mission as of June 2003.
Presentation Slides
MACSAT - A Mini-Satellite Approach to High Resolution Space Imaging
To be launched in 2004, MACSAT is a 200kg satellite, designed to provide 2.5m ground sampling distance (GSD) resolution imagery on a near equatorial orbit (NEqO). The mission objective is to demonstrate the capability of a high-resolution remote sensing satellite system on a NEqO. Initi-ated by ATSB, the proprietary NEqO mission has advantages for monitoring the environment of equatorial regions of Malaysia with unique revisit characteristics from the baseline circular orbit of 7 degrees of inclination. For the designed duration of 3-year mission life, MACSAT is optimized to accommodate a Medium-sized Aperture Camera (MAC), a push-broom type camera with swath width of 20km. The spacecraft has +/-30 degrees of tilting and 30 Mbps class X-band downlink capability. This paper describes the overview of the MACSAT program, focusing on the key technical and opera-tional aspects of the mission, and provides an update to the status of the mission as of June 2003.
