TerraSAR-X

German Aerospace Center
June, 2007 to December, 2015

TerraSAR-X1 (also referred to as ) is a German SAR satellite mission for scientific and commercial applications (national project). The project is supported by BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Science) and managed by DLR (German Aerospace Center). In 2002, EADS Astrium GmbH was awarded a contract to implement the X-band TerraSAR satellite (TerraSAR-X) on the basis of a public-private partnership agreement (PPP). In this arrangement, EADS Astrium funded part of the implementation cost of the TerraSAR-X system. In exchange, EADS Astrium/Infoterra received the exclusive commercial exploitation rights for the TerraSAR-X data. The satellite is owned and operated by DLR, and the scientific data rights remain with DLR. The satellite has a design life of at least five years. TerraSAR-X is of SIR-C/X-SAR (1994) and SRTM (2000) heritage - DLR SAR instruments flown on Shuttle missions.

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http://www.terrasar.de/

Instrument	Datasets
GPS Radio Occultation System	0
X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar	0

Also known as :

• missionID 391 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission TerraSAR-X (ceos lexicon)
• resource TerraSAR-X (dbpedia lexicon)
• Source TSX (nsidc lexicon)