Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa

Indian Space Research Organisation, Centre National D'études Spatiales
February, 2012 to February, 2015

SARAL is a cooperative altimetry technology mission of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) and CNES (Space Agency of France). In this setup, CNES is providing the payload module consisting of the AltiKa altimeter, DORIS, LRA, and Argos-3 DCS (Data Collection System), and the payload data reception and processing functions, while ISRO is responsible for the platform, launch, and operations of the spacecraft. A CNES/ISRO MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) on the SARAL mission was signed on Feb. 23, 2007.

directory.eoportal.org

http://smsc.cnes.fr/SARAL/

Instrument	Datasets
Ka-band Altimeter	1
ARGOS-3	0

Also known as :

• missionID 572 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission SARAL (ceos lexicon)
• resource SARAL (dbpedia lexicon)
• Platform SARAL (podaac lexicon)