SuperView-1
SuperView-1 (SV_1) is composed of 4 identical VHR EO satellites running along the same orbit and phrased 90° from each other. The first two satellites were launched in December 2016 and the second two were launched in January 2018. More follow-on satellites will join the constellation up to 2022, ensuring continuity of Earth imaging services for global clients.
Launch time | SV-1 01 / 02:28 Dec. 2016 SV-1 03 / 04:09 Jan. 2018 |
Orbit | Altitude: 530 km Type: Sun-synchronous Period: 97 minutes |
Design life | 8 years |
Sensor bands | Panchromatic: 450-890 nm Blue: 450-520 nm Green: 520-590 nm Red: 630-690 nm Near-IR: 770-890 nm |
Spatial resolution | PAN: 0.5 m, MS: 2 m (Nadir) |
Dynamic range | 11 bits |
Swath width | 12.1 km (Nadir) |
Onboard storage | 4.0 TB |
Stereo imaging | Yes |
Revisit time | within 1 day/4 satellites |
Positioning accuracy | 9.5m CE90 (Nadir) |
Data transmission | 2 * 450 Mbps |
Daily capacity | 600,000 km²/satellite |
SuperView-1 satellites are high-resolution commercial satellites designed, developed, and operated by China. SuperView-1 constellation is China’s first commercial satellite constellation with high agility and multi-mode imaging capability.
The multi-strip mode can obtain image up to 60 km x 70 km at a time. SuperView-1 constellation is a huge project that will include more high-resolution satellite clusters such as optical, radar, hyperspectral and video.
POWERFUL COLLECTION
From the year beginning of 2018, SuperView-1 is composed of 4 identical VHR EO satellites running along the same orbit and phrased 90° from each other. When 4 SuperView-1 satellites work concurrently, they are capable of collecting over 2 million square kilometers every day and revisiting any target on the Global within 1 day.
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By March 2019, SuperView-1 constellation had collected 750,359 scenes, around 90,150,000 square kilometers over the land of the Earth with cloud cover rate less than 10%.
HIGH AGILITY
Working on an agile platform allowing up to ±45° for long strip, multi-strip, multi-point and stereoscopic collections.
Long Strip |
Stereo Imaging |
Multiple Point Targets |
Multiple Strips |
GF-1
GF-1 includes 4 identical satellites, the first one was launched in April 2013, and the other 3 were launched in March 2018. It mainly applies in land resource investigation, mineral resource management, atmospheric and water environment quality monitoring, and natural disaster emergency response and monitoring, GF is the Chinese abbreviation for GAO FEN – meaning ‘high-resolution’.
GF-2
GF-2 is a follow-on mission of the GF-1 tecąology demonstration mission, a series of a high-resolution optical Earth observation satellites of CNSA (China National Space Administration), Beijing, China. GF-2 is a part of the CHEOS (China High Resolution Observation System) family with the objective to provide high accuracy geographical mapping, land and resource surveying, environment change monitoring, near real-time observation for disaster prevention and mitigation, as well as for agriculture and forest estimation.
GF-1 | GF-2 | |
Launch time | GF-1 01: 26 April 2013 GF-1 02 / 03 / 04: 11 April 2018 |
19 August 2014 |
Orbit | Altitude: 631 km Type: Sun-synchronous Period: 97 minutes |
Altitude: 631 km |
Sensor bands | PAN: 450-900 nm (PMC only) Blue: 450-520 nm Green: 520-590 nm Red: 630-690 nm Near-IR: 770-890 nm |
PAN: 450-900 nm Blue: 450-520 nm Green: 520-590 nm Red: 630-690 nm Near-IR: 770-890 nm |
Spatial resolution | PAN: 0.8 m, MS: 3.2 m | PMC: 2 m for PAN, 8 m for MS WFI: 16m for MS |
Swath width | PMC: 69 km, WFI: 830km | 45 km by twin cameras (Nadir) |
Revisit time | 1 day | 5 days |
GF-3
The satellite is equipped with a multi-polarized C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) at a meter-level resolution. Its imaging modes include spot mode, strip-map mode and scan mode. GF-3 is the first Chinese high-resolution SAR satellite to acquire multi-polarized SAR image with resolution of 1-500 meters and cover a total swath to 10-650 kilometers. The maximum working duration is 50 minutes.
Launch time | 19 April 2014 |
Orbit | Altitude: 775 km Type: Sun-synchronous Local time: 6:00 and 18:00 |
Name od mode | Resolution | Swath | Incidence | Polarization | ||
Spotlight (SL) | 1m | 10 km*10 km | 20°-50° | Optional single | ||
Strip | Ultra fine strip(UFS) | 3m |
30 km |
20°-50° | Optional single | |
Fine strip 1 (FS 1) | 5 m | 50 km | 19°-50° | Optional dual | ||
Fine strip 2 (FS 2) | 10 m | 100 km | 19°-50° | Optional dual | ||
Standard strip (SS) | 25m | 130 km | 17°-50° | Optional dual | ||
Full polarized strip 1 | 8 m | 30 km | 20°-41° | Full | ||
Full polarized strip 2 | 25m | 40 km | 20°-38° | Full | ||
Scan | Narrow(NSC) | 50 m | 300 km | 17°-50° | Optional dual | |
Wide(WSC) | 100 m | 500 km | 17°-50° | Optional dual | ||
Global observation | 500 m | 650 km | 17°-53° | Optional dual |
GF-4
GF-4 satellite is the first Chinese geosynchronous orbit remote sensing satellite and equipped with one stare camera with resolution of 50-m VNIR (Visible Light Near Infrared) and 400-m MWIR (Medium Wave Infrared) spectrum and 400-km swath. It is based on area array starring imaging and boasts capability of visible light, multi-spectrum and infrared imaging. It observes China and the surrounding areas by pointing control. GF-4 provides fast, reliable and stable optical remote sensing data to support disaster response, forestry, each quake and meteorology applications, and supplements an advanced tecąology for alerting natural disasters, monitoring wild fires or typhoon. GF-4 satellite data is mainly applied in the industries as environment, marine, agriculture and water resources in China and neighbor countries.
Orbit | Altitude: 36,000 km Type: Geo-synchronous Fixed point location: 105.6°E |
Design life | 8 years |
Sensor bands | VNIR: Blue: 450-900 nm Green: 450-520 nm Red: 630-690 nm Near-IR: 760-890 nm MWIR: 3500-4100 nm |
Spatial resolution | VNIR: 50 m, MWIR: 400 m |
Dynamic range | 10 bits |
Swath width | 400 km |
Revisit time | 20 seconds |
ZY
Ziyuan (ZY) satellites currently consist of 2 satellites, ZY-3 and ZY-3 02. Both are high-resolution stereoscopic Earth mapping satellites working as a team. The satellite carries three high-resolution panchromatic cameras and 1 infrared multispectral scanner (IRMSS). The panchromatic cameras are positioned at the front-viewing, vertical-viewing and rear-viewing positions, and they collect imagery of the Earth from different perspectives at the same time, allowing precise determination of the exact locations of different areas of interest on the Earth, resulting in ideal production of large-scale maps. At the same time, the payloads can also provide high-resolution infrared and stereoscopic images to satisfy the demands of the users from resource mapping, environmental surveying, disaster monitoring, city planning and national security segments.
Launch time | ZY-3 : 26 April 2013 ZY-3 02: 30 May 2016 |
Orbit | Altitude: 505 km Type: Sun-synchronous Period: 97 minutes |
Design life | 8 years |
Mass | 2500 kg |
Sensor bands | PAN: 500-800 nm Blue: 450-520 nm Green: 520-590 nm Red: 630-690 nm Near-IR: 770-890 nm |
Spatial resolution | ZY-3 : PAN: 2.1 m (Nadir), 3.5 m(Front/Rear) MS: 6 m ZY-3 02: PAN: 2.1 m (Nadir), 2.5 m(Front/Rear) MS: 5.8 m |
Dynamic range | 10 bits |
Swath width | PAN: 51 km (Nadir), 52 km (Front/Rear) MS: 51 km |
Onboard storage | 3.75 TB |
Stereo imaging | Yes |
Revisit time | 3-5 days per satellite |
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