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KOMPSAT-3A Satellite

KOMPSAT-3A satellite is the most advanced Korean commercial satellite, offering 40-cm resolution imagery.

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KOMPSAT-3A 40-cm Natural Color–New York, NY, USA; May 26, 2016 View Full Size Image

The KOMPSAT-3A Advantage

Robust Archive

KOMPSAT-3A helps fill in the gaps in the satellite imagery archive. In places with limited high-resolution imagery, KOMPSAT-3A often has available data.

Improved Resolution

KOMPSAT-3A boasts 40-cm resolution satellite imagery, an improvement on KOMPSAT-3’s 70-cm resolution.

Overview & History

KOMPSAT-3A, when launched in March 2015, was Korea’s most advanced Earth observation satellite. The Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) designed and built KOMPSAT-3. The next generation satellite, KOMPSAT-3A, was a joint venture between the Korean government and private industries with KARI passing its technology on to Korean Aerospace Industries and Asia-Pacific Aerospace. KOMPSAT-3A insures data continuity with KOMPSAT-3 and expands on its capability with 40-centimeter (cm) resolution panchromatic and 1.6-meter (m) four band multispectral data (i.e. blue, green, red and near-infrared).

KOMPSAT-3A Specifications

Launch Details
  • Launch Date: March 26, 2015, 22:08:45 UTC
  • Vehicle: Dnepr-1
  • Site: Jasny Dombarovsky, Russia
KOMPSAT-3A Components
  • Dimensions: 3.5-m long, 1,100 kg
  • Control Systems: series of coarse sun sensors, an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) and star trackers
  • Onboard Storage Capacity: 512 gigabytes
  • Ground Communication Systems:
    • Imagery downlink–1 Gbits per second
  • Optical Sensor Assembly: 8.6-m focal length, 80-cm aperture
Orbit Characteristics
  • Altitude: 528 km
  • Period: 98.5 minutes
  • Inclination: 97.5°
  • Direction: sun-synchronous circular, north to south (across the lit side of Earth)
  • Equatorial Crossing Time: 13:30 local time (approximate; across lit side of Earth)
  • Revisit Frequency: (at 40° lat)
    • 0.9 days (< 45° off-nadir)
    • 2.7 days (< 20° off-nadir)
Imaging System
  • Spectral Bands:
    • Panchromatic
    • 4-band multispectral (blue, green, red and NIR)
  • Sensor Resolution:
    • Delivered at 40-cm (or 50-cm and 55-cm [i.e. native resolution] options) panchromatic & 1.6-meter (m) (or 2-m and 2.2-m [i.e. native resolution] options) multispectral
  • Spectral Band Wavelength Range: (in nm)
    • Panchromatic–450 to 900
    • Blue–450 to 520
    • Green–520 to 600
    • Red–630 to 690
    • NIR–760 to 900
    • MWIR–3.3 µm–5.2 µm (band not sold commercially at this time)
  • Dynamic Range: 14-bits
Collection Capabilities
  • Footprint Width: 12 km (at nadir)
  • Maximum Collection Geometry: 300,000 square kilometers (sq km)
  • Retargeting Ability: 10 sec (time to slew 200 km)
  • Daily Collection Capacity: 300,000 sq km
  • Georeferenced Horizontal Accuracy: 9.9-m CE90 (global average, dependent on terrain)

Pricing

Data Source

archive (greater than 60 days old)

Minimum Order Size

25 sq km (per area & date)

Product Type

georeferenced + natural color or 4-band

For an exact quote, please contact our Sales Team by email at sales@apollomapping.com
or by using our Request a Quote form.

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