Positioning Ocean Solid Earth Ice Dynamics Orbiting Navigator (Single frequency solid state radar altimeter)

Centre National D'études Spatiales

SSALT is also referred to as Poseidon-1. The single instrument frequency is 13.65 GHz (Ku-band). SSALT is an experimental altimeter (of CNES, built by Alcatel Alenia Space, formerly Alcatel Espace, Toulouse) to demonstrate the concept of low-power, low-mass, low data rate (1/7 the rate of NRA due to extensive on-board processing) and low-cost altimeter for future Earth observing missions.

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Also known as :

• instrumentID 18 (ceos lexicon)
• Instrument POSEIDON-1 (SSALT-1) (ceos lexicon)
• Sensor POSEIDON ALTIMETER (podaac lexicon)