Hisdesat, Astrium Agree To Radar Imagery Partnership

摘要

The Spanish Paz civil/military X-band radar Earth observation satellite will be operated and marketed in concert with Germany's civil TerraSAR-X radar satellite following an agreement between Spain's Hisdesat and Germany's Astrium Geo-Infor-mation Services, the companies announced. The agreement could reduce pressure on Astrium and the German space agency, DLR, to agree on financing for a successor to TerraSAR-X, which has been in orbit since mid-2007. Paz is scheduled for launch in 2013. The Hisdesat-Astrium linkup also means Astrium will not face a new competitor in what is already a difficult global market for radar Earth observation data.