SABIA-Mar
SABIA-Mar 1 (left) and SABIA-Mar 2 (right)
NamesSABIA-Mar 1 (Argentina)
SABIA-Mar 2 (Brazil)
OperatorCONAE / INPE
WebsiteCONAE-SAC-E
Mission duration5 years (planned)
Spacecraft properties
ManufacturerINVAP
Payload mass680 kilograms (1,500 lb)
Dimensions2 metres (6 ft 7 in) ⌀ × 2.2 metres (7 ft 3 in) height envelope
Start of mission
Launch dateQ4 2024 (planned)[1]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeSun-synchronous orbit
Perigee altitude645 km[2]
Apogee altitude645 km
Repeat interval4 days
Transponders
BandS-band and X-band (Downlink only)
 

The SABIA-Mar (Spanish: Satélites Argentino-Brasileño para Información Ambiental del Mar), originally called SAC-E by CONAE, is a dual satellite joint Earth observation mission. The mission objective is to study the oceanic biosphere, its changes over time, and how it is affected by and reacts to human activity.[4] It will focus on the monitoring of ocean surfaces, especially studying the ocean ecosystem, the carbon cycle, and marine habitats, as well as ocean mapping.[5][6]

This collaboration between the Argentine (CONAE) and the Brazilian (AEB) space agencies was originally supposed to make two identical spacecraft with Argentina supplying the payload and Brazil the satellite bus. The satellites, SABIA-Mar A and SABIA-Mar B, were supposed to fly in 2017 and 2018, and operate until 2021.[5][6]

By 2016, CONAE announced that a new agreement had been reached, where Argentina would build SABIA-Mar 1, and Brazil would build SABIA-Mar 2.[7] The Argentine satellite, SABIA-Mar 1, is supposed to fly in 2024.[1]

SABIA-Mar 1

SABIA-Mar 1 will be designed and built by the Argentine technological company INVAP. They will act as prime contractor and integrator, as well as supply two instruments. It is expected to be launched in late 2024,[1] have a 5-year design life, and fly on a Sun-synchronous orbit with a four-day revisit frequency.[8] It successfully passed PDR in April 2016 which marked the end of Phase B development, and the project entered Phase C (detailed design).[9] In April 2018, the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the flight segment was approved.[10]

SABIA-Mar 2

SABIA-Mar 2 will be built in Brazil on the Multi-Mission Platform (MMP), the satellite bus developed for Amazônia-1. It will have a service module with a dry mass of 292 kilograms (644 lb) and a power budget of 304 watts, and a payload module with a mass of 219 kilograms (483 lb) and a power budget of 260 watts.[2] It is expected to be launched sometime in the 2020s.[11]

Instruments

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See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Revisión de hitos constructivos entre CONAE e INVAP para la misión SABIA-Mar". CONAE (in Spanish). MINCYT. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b "SABIA-MAR-Phase A Final Report (SB-010400-IA-00100-A)" (PDF). CONAE. 19 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Instrumentos" [Instruments] (in Spanish). CONAE. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  4. ^ "CONAE National Space Program" (PDF). 10 February 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Plano Diretor 2011-2015" [General Plan 2011–2015] (PDF) (in Portuguese). INPE. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  6. ^ a b c "The SABIA-Mar Mission" (PDF). Ioccg.org. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  7. ^ "Introducción" [Introduction] (in Spanish). CONAE. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  8. ^ "SABIA-Mar". INVAP. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  9. ^ "Revisión Preliminar de Diseño (PDR) Proyecto SABIA-Mar" [SABIA-Mar passes Preliminary Design Review (PDR)] (in Spanish). CONAE. April 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  10. ^ "Otro Satélite Aprobado: Comienza la Fabricación de SABIA-Mar 1" (in Spanish). CONAE. 25 April 2018. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  11. ^ Krebs, Gunter (12 May 2018). "SABIA-Mar 2". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 17 February 2019.

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