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involved, enabling them to develop new capabilities image features. It has an image memory of 256 GB
which will improve their competitiveness in the global and capacity for the transmission of same to Earth of
aerospace market. This new satellite will also substan- 300 Mbits/s on X-band.
tially improve the positioning of our company within
the European programme for GMES (Global Monitor- INTA will be in charge of the ground management
ing for Environment and Security), principal initiative segment for Paz.
in the field of Earth observation led by the European
Union and the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Paz satellite will cover defence and security re- The Ingenio satellite is run by the Ministry of Science
quirements, as well as others of a civilian nature, be- and Innovation and the Centre for Industrial Tech-
ing able to take more than 100 daily images of up to nological Development (CDTI), while the European
one metre in resolution, both diurnally and nocturnal- Space Agency (ESA) is responsible for overseeing
ly, and regardless of weather conditions. Designed for the manufacture of same. Ingenio (optic) is dedicat-
a five and a half year mission, it will cover an area of ed to principally fulfilling the requirements of civilian
over 300.000 square kilometres a day. It is equipped users.
to orbit the Earth fifteen times, at a height of 514
kilometres and at a speed of seven kilometres per This satellite will have a heliosynchronous orbit at
second. Given its slightly inclined quasi-polar orbit, some 670 Km height, circling the earth more than
Paz will cover the entire globe with an average revisit 14 times a day. It will have the capacity to take up
time of 24 hours. to 600 panchromatic and multispectral images daily,
with a resolution of 2.5m and 10m, respectively. With
Its total estimated weight is 1400 kg., it measures 5 this satellite the national territory can be fully covered
m. in height and 2,4 m. in diameter. 8 times each year. Its launch will take place in 2014.

The radar has been developed in a very flexible man-
ner, with capability to operate in a large number of
configurations, thereby permitting the selection of

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