Indra has secured a contract from INTA, an organ of the Spanish Ministry of Defence, to provide the ground control segment for the Paz Earth Observation satellite.
Under the €9m contract, Indra will provide several components of the Paz ground network, including a data-processing centre.
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Astrium Satellites is developing the 1,400kg Paz satellite using a platform based on the one employed by Astrium for Germany’s TerraSAR-X and TanDem-X radar satellites.
The Paz satellite, which will be equipped with an X-band radar, is capable of delivering images with a ground resolution of 1m in diameter and also features various operating modes offering different image sharpness and swath widths.