SATURN

SATURN
SATURN
SATURN
SATURN
SATURN
Satellite SATURN
Form factor CubeSat
Units or mass 16U
Organisation OHB Italia
Institution Company
Entity Commercial
Headquarters 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] [4] [5]
Photo sources [1] [2] [3] [4]
Keywords Propulsion, Formation flying, SAR

Related Spacecraft

Name Status Launcher Launch Orbit
SATURN A (Synthetic AperTure radar cUbesat foRmation flyiNg) not launched not launched 2025-12-31 not launched
SATURN B (Synthetic AperTure radar cUbesat foRmation flyiNg) not launched not launched 2025-12-31 not launched
SATURN C (Synthetic AperTure radar cUbesat foRmation flyiNg) not launched not launched 2025-12-31 not launched

Last modified: 2023-12-02

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