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Also known as VNREDSat-1A, VNREDSat 1A, VNREDSAT 1

VNREDSat-1 (short for Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite, also VNREDSat-1A) is the first optical Earth Observing satellite of Vietnam; its primary mission is to monitor and study the effects of climate change, predict and take measures to prevent natural disasters, and optimise the management of Vietnam's natural resources.

Key facts

Spaceflight.auto
all
Spaceflight.name
VNREDSat 1A
Spaceflight.mission_type
Earth observation
Spaceflight.operator
VAST
Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
2013-021B
Spaceflight.SATCAT
39160
Spaceflight.mission_duration
5 years
Spaceflight.manufacturer
EADS Astrium
Spaceflight.launch_date
 UTC
Spaceflight.launch_rocket
Vega flight VV02
Spaceflight.launch_site
Kourou ELA-1
Spaceflight.launch_contractor
Arianespace
Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
25 January 2015, 05:27:58 UTC
Spaceflight.orbit_reference
Geocentric
Spaceflight.orbit_regime
Sun-synchronous
Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
98.16 degrees
Spaceflight.orbit_period
98.43 minutes
Spaceflight.apsis
gee

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Wikidata facts

Country
Vietnam
Manufacturer
Astrium
Significant event
rocket launch
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UTC date of spacecraft launch
2013-05-07
space launch vehicle
Vega
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WikiProject Climate change
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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Satellite
  • Launch
  • References

VNREDSat-1 (short for Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite, also VNREDSat-1A) is the first optical Earth Observing satellite of Vietnam; its primary mission is to monitor and study the effects of climate change, predict and take measures to prevent natural disasters, and optimise the management of Vietnam's natural resources.

==Satellite== The VNREDSat-1 was built in Toulouse by EADS Astrium. During the project 15 Vietnamese engineers were integrated and trained by the Astrium team. The VNREDSat-1 system is based on the Astrium operational AstroSat100 satellite, used for the SSOT programme developed with Chile or the ALSAT-2 satellite system developed with Algeria. The 120 kg satellite will image at 2.5 m in panchromatic mode and 10 m in multi-spectral mode (four bands) with a 17.5 km swath, and will orbit at 600–700 km in a Sun-synchronous orbit.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “VNREDSat-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.