Name | SATURN |
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Type | CubeSat |
Units or mass | 16U |
Organisation | OHB Italia |
Institution | Company |
Entity | Commercial |
Nation | Italy |
Operator | In-house? |
Partners | Aresys, Politecnico di Milano |
Oneliner |
SATURN aims to become the first ever Space SAR MIMO mission with CubeSats. |
Description |
The technology offered is called SATURN (Synthetic AperTure radar cUbesat foRmation flyiNg), consisting of a train of 3, 16U-CubeSats equipped with miniaturized SAR instruments. The main target of the SATURN mission is to demonstrate the key technology “Cooperative Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Swarms of SAR CubeSats” for innovative, low cost and versatile Earth Observation capabilities. SATURN aims to become the first ever Space SAR MIMO mission, providing: Single Pass Interferometric Observation, Modular Performance, Constellation of Swarms. |
Sources | [1] [2] [3] |
Photo sources | [1] [2] [3] |
Keywords | Propulsion, Formation flying, SAR |
Related Spacecraft
Name | Status | Launch | Orbit |
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SATURN A (Synthetic AperTure radar cUbesat foRmation flyiNg) | not launched | 2025-12-31 | not launched |
SATURN B (Synthetic AperTure radar cUbesat foRmation flyiNg) | not launched | 2025-12-31 | not launched |
SATURN C (Synthetic AperTure radar cUbesat foRmation flyiNg) | not launched | 2025-12-31 | not launched |
Last modified: 2023-06-09
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