Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) advanced TecSAR satellite, has won the Technological Innovation award at the "Technologies" group annual International Aerospace Conference and Exhibition in Jerusalem.
The TecSAR satellite, the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite designed by IAI, is an innovative and leading development in its category, integrating technologies from IAI's Missiles Systems & Space group and ELTA Systems Ltd., an IAI group and subsidiary.
TecSAR has been producing thousands of high quality images per month since its launch in January 2008, to the users' full satisfaction. TecSAR provides very high resolution images, carrying an inovative SAR payload, which unlike Electro- Optical payloads, is able to provide images even in poor visibility conditions: night, heavy cloudiness, rain, sand storms and even through camouflage nets.
With a very low weight of just 300kg, the satellite achieves extremely high mechanical agility. Combining high maneuverability with electronic beam steering antenna, TecSAR offers high-resolution coverage of large areas in mosaic form. TecSAR's unique ground coverage capability provides customers with unprecedented usability and overcomes the limitations of other SAR observation systems.
TecSAR provides a very high quality cost-effective solution, with a low launch cost and capability for multiple ground station operations that facilitates multi-user collaboration.
The satellite is compatible with commercial usage and is able to orbit in different altitudes/inclinations
IAI's Satellite Bus design is versatile and can carry other payloads types of various weights/volume, including an electro - optical telescope. Indeed, a multi-platform configuration that includes an Ofeq electro-optical satellite combined with one other payloads types of various weights/volume, including an electro - optical telescope. Indeed, a multi-platform configuration that includes an Ofeq electro-optical satellite combined with one or more TecSAR satellites may produce optimal results.
IAI has been a leader in space technologies for over 30 years, with proven unique abilities in all phases of space programs: from the early stages of analysis and defining the customers' operational needs, throughout all phases of building, integration and launching as well as operating the satellites in space.
IAI has an exclusive teaming agreement in place with American defense company Northrop Grumman to provide a responsive, cost-effective, space-based SAR capability to the U.S. government based on IAI's TecSAR multi-mode X-band radar imaging satellite. This agreement is yet another testimony of TecSAR's unique abilities and exceptional quality.
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TecSAR Satellite
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Doron Suslik
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