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aliases:
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    term: 391
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  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: TerraSAR-X
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#T
  - context: resource
    lexicon: dbpedia
    term: TerraSAR-X
    url: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraSAR-X
  - context: Source
    lexicon: nsidc
    term: TSX
    url: ~
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : German Aerospace Center '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3724.yaml
    id: 3724
    organization:
      country_code: DE
      display_name: German Aerospace Center
      identifier: german-aerospace-center
      name: German Aerospace Center
      organization_type_identifier: national
      type: organization
      url: http://www.dlr.de
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    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
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    uri: /contributor/3724
description: '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.'
description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/t/terrasar-x
display_name: terrasar-x
end_date: 2015-12-01T00:00:00
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href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/terrasar-x.yaml
identifier: terrasar-x
instruments:
  - description: GNSS radio-occultation receiver
    description_attribution: GNSS radio-occultation receiver
    identifier: gps-radio-occultation-system-2
    name: GPS Radio Occultation System
    uri: /instrument/gps-radio-occultation-system-2
  - description: Imaging radar (SAR)
    description_attribution: Imaging radar (SAR)
    identifier: x-band-synthetic-aperture-radar-2
    name: X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
    uri: /instrument/x-band-synthetic-aperture-radar-2
name: TerraSAR-X
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 2007-06-15T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/terrasar-x
url: http://www.terrasar.de/