Airbus Phase 0 Study for Earth Explorer 11: SEASTAR
Conference: EUSAR 2024 - 15th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
04/23/2024 - 04/26/2024 at Munich, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2024
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Phippen, Dominic; Burbidge, Geoff; Mak, Karen; del Castillo Mena, Javier; Garcia Garcia, Quiterio; Marquez, Jose; Aleman Roda, Fernando; de la Fuente Arranz, Carlos; Stasi, Martina; Tröndle, Simon; David, Matthieu; Andriof, Tilman; Kuntz, Steffen
Abstract:
SEASTAR is one of four missions in ESA’s Earth Explorer 11 program, which was studied in parallel by two consortia. It is an Along-Track Interferometry (ATI) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload which aims to build up a 2D radar Doppler image of coastal surface currents at a sub-mesoscale resolution. This paper details the concept which was designed by the consortium led by Airbus Defence & Space. Down-selections of the Earth Explorer concepts will be made in 2023 and 2025, with a view to launching the successful Earth Explorer 11 mission in 2031– 2032.