Ingenio

Also called SEOsat (Satélite Español de Observación de la Tierra)

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General

Designation	n/a
Launch date	17 Nov 2020
Country of origin	Spain
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	670 km, sun-synchrnous
Inclination	98°
Period	(10:30 descending node)
Launch vehicle	Vega #17 launch failure

Launch initially planned in late-2012, worth EUR200 million


This satellite was to be operated through the National Earth Observation Program (Programa Nacional de Observacion de la Tierra; PNOT). Owned by Spain's Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI - Centro para el Desarrollo Technologico Industrial). Would have worked in conjunction with Paz

The mission is devoted to providing high resolution multispectral land optical images to different Spanish civil, institutional and government users, and potentially to other European users in the framework of GMES and GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems).

Sener is the payload prime contractor.

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	EADS CASA Espacio
Platform	Astrosat 250
Mass at launch	840 kg
Dry mass	750 kg
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power	850+ W
Design lifetime	7 years

Optical: should provide panchromatic imagery of 2.5 m and multispectral imagery of 10 m resolution.
Multispectral: 4 bands (red, green, blue, near-IR)

3 other small payloads:

SENSOSOL (Sensor solar de última generación que determina la posición del Sol para la orientación del satélite - A new generation solar sensor for getting the satellite orientation with respect to the Sun position). SENSOSOL has been developed by the University of Sevilla and the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Cataluña), Barcelona, Spain.

TTT, in-orbit dosimeter and spectrometer

UVAS (Ultraviolet Visible and near infrared Atmospheric Sounder).

TT&C in S-band, data in X-band (280 Mb/s).

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