Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
ASNARO 2
The ASNARO 2 (Advanced Satellite with New system Architecture for Observation) is an planned Japanese radar satellite. It will feature an X-band radar.
The satellite is based on NEC's NEXTAR NX-300L bus. The imaging system is the 1 kW XSAR, a X-band SAR with a ground resolution of 1 m and a swath width of 10 km. XSAR can also be employed in the ScanSAR mode, which uses the satellite’s attitude control system to sweep out adjacent image strips to allow a broader ground swath to over 50 km, but with a reduced resolution of 16 meters.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 570.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
Mu Pad, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Stats
2018
7th orbital launch attempt
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
4th mission
1st mission of 2018
3rd successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission
Epsilon
3rd mission
1st mission of 2018
3rd successful mission