--- - description: "A NASA/CSA (USA/Canada) cooperative research mission in the ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program to study the effects of clouds on climate and weather. CloudSat's primary goal is to furnish data needed to evaluate and improve the way clouds are represented in global models, thereby contributing to better predictions of clouds and thus to their poorly understood role in climate change and the cloud-climate feedback [focused on understanding the role of optically thick clouds on the Earth's radiation budget (a balance of solar energy reaching the Earth and lost to space that ultimately controls the temperature of the Earth)]." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cloudsat display_name: cloudsat end_date: 2015-10-01T00:00:00 identifier: cloudsat name: CloudSat platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2006-04-28T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/cloudsat url: http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/ - description: "Swarm is a minisatellite constellation mission within the Earth Explorer Opportunity Program of ESA, proposed under the lead of DNSC (Danish National Space Center) of Copenhagen, Denmark (formerly DSRI). In January 2007, DNSC became, an institute at the Technical University of Denmark. The Swarm mission will be the 4th mission in ESA's Earth Explorer Program, following GOCE, SMOS, and CryoSat-2." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/swarm display_name: earths-magnetic-field-and-environment-explorers end_date: 2016-11-01T00:00:00 identifier: earths-magnetic-field-and-environment-explorers name: Earth's Magnetic Field and Environment Explorers platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2013-11-22T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/earths-magnetic-field-and-environment-explorers url: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/The_Living_Planet_Programme/Earth_Explorers/Swarm - description: 'CASSIOPE is a new generation of small-satellite and multifunctional platform technology demonstration program of CSA (Canadian Space Agency) and ITO (Industrial Technologies Office) with the goal to serve both, namely scientific and commercial support applications in a variety of future Canadian space missions. The program is based on a PPP (Public Private Partnership) consortium - and developed under a Contribution Agreement between CSA, TPC (Technology Partnerships Canada), the University of Calgary, and MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates).' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cassiope display_name: enhanced-polar-outflow-probe-on-the-cascade-smallsat-and-ionospheric-polar-explorer end_date: 2015-09-01T00:00:00 identifier: enhanced-polar-outflow-probe-on-the-cascade-smallsat-and-ionospheric-polar-explorer name: Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe on the Cascade SmallSat and Ionospheric Polar Explorer platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2013-09-29T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/enhanced-polar-outflow-probe-on-the-cascade-smallsat-and-ionospheric-polar-explorer url: http://epop.phys.ucalgary.ca/ - description: 'Odin is an international aeronomy and astronomy minisatellite mission led by Sweden, with Canada, France, and Finland as partners. The project is carried out and funded jointly by the space agencies of Sweden [SNSB (Swedish National Space Board)], Canada [CSA (Canadian Space Agency) and NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council)], Finland [TEKES (National Technology Agency of Finland)], and France (CNES). The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is responsible for spacecraft system design and development. SSC provides also spacecraft operations (the operations center of SSC is located at Esrange; the latitude of 68º provides excellent visibility for polar orbiting satellites). - The Odin satellite is named after the god Odin - ruler of the Old Norse deities.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/odin display_name: odin end_date: 2015-12-01T00:00:00 identifier: odin name: Odin platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2001-02-20T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/odin url: http://www.ohb-sweden.se/odin - description: "RADARSAT-1 is the first Canadian developed and commercially operated Earth observation satellite with the objective to monitor environmental change and the planet's natural resources in the microwave region. The observational SAR data is useful to both commercial and scientific users in such fields as disaster management, interferometry, agriculture, cartography, hydrology, forestry, oceanography, ice studies and coastal monitoring. The cooperative project involves the Canadian government under the aegis of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and the private sector. NASA is a partner in the mission, providing launch services; in exchange, NASA is receiving RADARSAT data at ASF (Alaska SAR Facility), Fairbanks, Alaska." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/radarsat-1 display_name: radarsat-1 end_date: 2013-03-29T00:00:00 identifier: radarsat-1 name: RADARSAT-1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1995-11-04T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/radarsat-1 url: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/default.asp - description: 'RADARSAT-2 is a jointly-funded satellite mission of CSA (Canadian Space Agency) and MDA (MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. of Richmond, BC), representing a Canadian government/industry partnership [or PPP (Public Private Partnership)] in a commercial venture. In Feb. 1998, CSA awarded a contract to MDA to built RADARSAT-2. The contract calls for MDA to develop, own and operate RADARSAT-2 and related infrastructure (including data distribution). CSA provides a fixed financial contribution to MDA (about 75%), in exchange for imagery allocation from the S/C to government agencies. Also, ORBIMAGE, an affiliate of Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, VA, is a significant participant in this program as the exclusive distributor of RADARSAT-2 imagery to U.S. customers.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/r/radarsat-2 display_name: radarsat-2 end_date: 2015-04-01T00:00:00 identifier: radarsat-2 name: RADARSAT-2 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2007-12-14T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/radarsat-2 url: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat2/default.asp - description: 'SciSat-1/ACE is a Canadian atmospheric science mission. In the time frame 1996/97, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) initiated the SciSat program with the objective to provide opportunities for Canadian scientists to define and conduct space experiments in the following fields: Earth sciences, space astronomy, and solar-terrestrial relations. Mission selection procedures in the program were conducted via an AO (Announcement of Opportunity) process and peer reviews.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/scisat-1 display_name: scisat-i-ace end_date: 2015-03-01T00:00:00 identifier: scisat-i-ace name: SCISAT-I/ACE platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2003-08-12T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/scisat-i-ace url: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/scisat/default.asp - description: ~ description_attribution: ~ display_name: soil-moisture-active-passive end_date: 2018-06-01T00:00:00 identifier: soil-moisture-active-passive name: Soil Moisture Active Passive platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2015-01-31T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/soil-moisture-active-passive url: http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/ - description: "Terra (formerly known as EOS/AM-1) is a joint Earth observing mission within NASA's ESE (Earth Science Enterprise) program between the United States, Japan, and Canada. The US provided the spacecraft, the launch, and three instruments developed by NASA (CERES, MISR, MODIS). Japan provided ASTER and Canada MOPITT. The Terra spacecraft is considered the flagship of NASA's EOS (Earth Observing Satellite) program. In February 1999, the EOS/AM-1 satellite was renamed by NASA to “Terra”. " description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/t/terra display_name: terra end_date: 2015-10-01T00:00:00 identifier: terra name: Terra (formerly EOS AM-1) platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1999-12-18T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/terra url: http://terra.nasa.gov/