The Spanish Earth Observationsatellite PAZ, was launched on 22 February on-board a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States.
The German TerraSAR-X radar satellite, operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Astrium, has been switched into a new wide-angle view mode allowing the satellite to record image strips over 200 kilometres wide. "The satellite does so by sweeping this large area in multiple stages, very quickly pivoting the radar beam numerous times across the direction of flight," explains DLR mission manager Stefan Buckreuss.
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