Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE)
Argentine national space agency and operator of the SAOCOM radar observation programme.
Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales is Argentina's national civilian space agency and an Earth-observation mission operator headquartered at Av. Paseo Colon 751 in Buenos Aires.[1] Its satellite programme includes SAOCOM, an L-band SAR Earth-observation mission family serving soil moisture, agriculture, flood early warning, and environmental emergency management applications.[2] CONAE also provides national satellite-information services through a geospatial information portal and an image and product catalogue.[1] The SAOCOM programme contributes to SIASGE and includes domestic industrial and technical participation in SAOCOM work.[2]
Operates
- SAOCOM-1Aoperational
launched 2018-10-08 / Sun-synchronous orbit, 620 km altitude, 97.89 deg inclination / 16 day revisit / 8 day paired revisit / 350 km swath
- [1]CONAE official Argentina.gob.ar pageagency doc2026-06-26
- [2]CONAE SAOCOM contribution to SIASGEagency doc2026-06-26