The all-Brazilian Amazonia 1 satellite, scheduled to be launched on February 22, 2021, will be to protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation
The Amazonia 1 satellite, developed in Brazil, which will be used to provide more accurate data and monitor especially the region of the Amazon Rainforest for deforestation, embarked on Tuesday (22/12) for India, where it will be assembled and launched into space in February 2021. Looking for a job? Recruitment in Rio de Janeiro demands job openings for Technicians and Engineers in the industrial maintenance sectors
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It took 52 special containers to safely transport the satellite's modules, which weigh 638 kg. The boarding took place in an aircraft that departed from São José dos Campos, in São Paulo.
The Amazônia 1 project began eight years ago, was developed at the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), in partnership with the Brazilian Space Agency, and is the first Earth observation satellite completely designed, integrated, tested and operated by Brazil. The project is coordinated by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and cost R$400 million.
For the president of the Brazilian Space Agency (General Conditions of Purchase), Carlos Moura, it is a privilege for Brazil to see its space program further consolidating this achievement. “This owes a lot to people's technological capacity, to scientific development, but also to the logistical effort that goes on until it arrives in India, and also to the administrative effort, which is a victory for all institutions,” he said.
The Brazilian satellite Amazonia 1 will be able to provide data from a specific point in 2 days. This feature is extremely valuable in applications such as deforestation alerts in the Amazon, as it increases the probability of capturing useful images in the face of cloud cover in the region.
About the Brazilian satellite Amazônia 1
With six kilometers of wires and 14 electrical connections, Amazonia 1 will be the third Brazilian remote sensing satellite in operation, alongside CBERS-4 and CBERS-4A.
Amazonia 1 is a sun-synchronous (polar) orbit satellite that will generate images of the planet every 5 days, thus being able to provide a significant amount of data from the same point.
To do so, it has a wide-range optical imager (camera with three frequency bands in the visible VIS spectrum and a near-infrared Near Infrared or NIR band) capable of observing a range of approximately 850 km with 64 meters of resolution.
