CHINA-S&T: CHINA ESTABLISHES SPACECRAFT TO MONITOR ARCTIC SHIPPING ROUTES

On December 11, China announced plans to launch a new imaging satellite to monitor Arctic shipping routes. The satellite will employ Synthetic Aperture Radar technology able to observe the Earth’s surface even during night time and through cloud layers or smoke. The spacecraft will be placed into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 720 kilometres and produce high-quality imagery. At a resolution of 50 meters, the satellite can image strips up to 300 kilometres wide. The project is being jointly developed by China’s Academy of Space and Technology and China's Sun Yat-sen University. The project represents the first SAR satellite developed by the newly established Joint Research Center for Space-based Observation. Establishment of the Joint Research Centre for Space-based Observation was announced during the Satellite Remote Sensing Forum held at Sun Yat-sen University on December 3.







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