See Also
- Seasat: The first SAR radar in space in 1978
- SAR Lupe: Germany's military radar satellites
- SAR technology(Synthetic Aperture Radar)
- Earth observation technology
- Earth observation satellite
- Digital elevation model
Radars on the Space Shuttle:
- SIR-A (Shuttle Imaging Radar) aboard STS-2 in 1981
- SIR-B aboard STS-41-G in 1984
- SRL-1 (Shuttle Radar Laboratory): SIR-C (Spaceborne Imaging Radar) and X-SAR (X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar) on STS-59 in 1994
- SRL-2: SIR-C/X-SAR on STS-68 in 1994
- SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) on STS-99 in 2000
(the TerraSAR-X authors were involved in SRL and SRTM missions)
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