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Luxembourg, 12 November 2020. – Spain’s SEOSAT-Ingenio Earth Imaging Satellite will be launched on a Vega rocket from French Guiana on 17 November, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.
SEOSAT-Ingenio carries a high resolution dual camera to view the Earth with a resolution of 2.5 meters. With its ability to look sideways, it can access anywhere on Earth within three days, ESA said. It will be used to help map natural disasters such as floods, fires and earthquakes and manage climate change.
SEOSAT-Ingenio information will be used by various Spanish civil, institutional and government users, but also potentially by other European users in the framework of the European Union’s Copernicus program and the Group’s Global Earth Observation System for Earth Observations, ESA said.
SEOSAT-Ingenio is funded by the Spanish Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. It was developed by ESA in the context of the European earth observation architecture.
In an interview with SpaceWatch.Global, CEO of Satlantis Juan Tomas Hernani compared ESA’s mission to the commercial enterprise of Satlantis, an Earth observation camera with “(or) one-tenth the weight and three times the resolution,” as he said.
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