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up to 25 cm, both day and night and In the near future, the INGENIO sate-
re-gardless of weather conditions. llite will be incorporated into Hisdes-
It has been designed to cover more at’s fleet of Earth observation satelli-
than 300,000 square kilometres dai- tes. INGENIO is an optic-technology
ly and is configured to orbit the Earth satellite, intended primarily to ad-
15 times a day at a height of 514 kilo- dress the needs of civilian users. It is
metres and a velocity of 7 kilometres run by the Ministry of Industry and
per second. Given its slightly inclined the Centre for Industrial Technolo-
quasi-polar orbit, PAZ covers the en- gical Development (CDTI), while the
tire globe with an average revisit time European Space Agency (ESA) is
of 24 hours. responsible for managing the manu-
facturing process. It will have a he-
Its total mass is 1,400kg. It is 5 metres liosynchronous orbit at 670km abo-
high and has a diameter of 2.4 metres.
ve ground and circle the Earth just
The radar has been designed to be over 14 times a day, with the capacity
highly flexible and will be capable of to take up to 600 panchromatic and
operating in a large number of con- multi-spectral images daily at resolu-
figurations, thereby permitting the tions of 2.5m and 10m, respectively.
selection of image features. It has an With this satellite the Spanish terri-
image memory of 256 GB and the tory will be covered fully 8 times a
capacity to transmit images at 300 year.
Mbits/s on X-band.
Hisdesat is responsible for the launch
and commercial exploitation of both
satellites of the observation system,
in collaboration with INTA, which pro-
vides the ground segment.

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