Small optical sensor satellite “asnaro” and series of small earth observation satellites

This paper shows the new small optical sensor satellite “ASNARO” and series of small earth observation satellites. ASANRO is developed by NEC under the contract with the Japanese government and its launch is planned this December. This satellite is 500 kg class small size satellite with 0.5 m resolution optical sensor. In addition, we plan the development of small earth observation satellites with various sensors, such as Hyper-spectral sensor, X band SAR sensor and so on, based on the same technologies as ASNARO. These small satellites series will realize the high performance earth observation system with multi sensors.