Names | Daichi 4 |
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Mission type | Remote sensing |
Operator | JAXA |
COSPAR ID | 2024-123A |
SATCAT no. | 60182![]() |
Website | www |
Mission duration | 57 days, 20 hours, 13 minutes (elasped) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | Mitsubishi Electric |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | July 1, 2024, 03:06:00UTC |
Rocket | H3-22S |
Launch site | Tanegashima LP2 |
Contractor | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Sun-synchronous |
Instruments | |
PALSAR-3: Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-3 SPAISE3: SPace based AIS Experiment 3rd | |
Advanced Land Observing Satellite 4 (ALOS-4), also called Daichi 4 (daichi is a Japanese word meaning "great land"), is a 3,000 kg (6,600 lb) Japanese L-band synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite that was launched on July 1, 2024. It carries PALSAR-3 (Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-3), which is a successor to the PALSAR-2 on ALOS-2 satellite. ALOS-4 is the fourth satellite which carries L-band SAR operated by JAXA, following JERS-1, ALOS, and ALOS-2.