The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is moving forward with the planned launch of a Brazilian satellite, sometime in early 2021. The director of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research Clezio de Nardin, announced that the Amazonia 1 satellite was currently en route to India via an Emirates B777 airplane. It is scheduled to be launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle of ISRO, and although the date has yet to be officially announced, some sources indicate that February 2021 is the most likely.
This will be Brazil’s first satellite for Earth observation, and the third remote-sensing satellite, joining the CBERS-4 and CBERS-4A. It will have a polar orbit, and has a wide-view optical imager — a camera which has three bands in the visible light spectrum, and one in the near- infrared range. These cameras can observe to a range of 850 km (about 530 miles) with a resolution of 64 meters (about 210 feet).
Financial Express reports that the “Amazonia series satellites are capable of having two independent modules: a Service Module, which is the Multi-mission Platform (PMM); and a Payload Module, which houses imaging cameras and equipment for recording and transmitting image data.”
