Will receive transmissions from ground stations for fighting wildfires.
First satellite built by GOMSpace. Earth observation and AIS tracking. Demonstration flight.
"Forty Ku-band, 10 C-band, 7 Ka-band transponders. "
X-band radar imaging. Will share orbit with 2 German radar satellites -- TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X and coordinate with them. Part of ESA's Copernicus mission.
"34 Ka-band, 24 Ku-band"
First GEO satellite built in Germany in 20 years.
Suffered a power malfunction shortly after entering orbit; will affect capacity.
"Study degradation of lenses in space environment by imaging the same region repeatedly under the same light conditions, FIBOS (Fiber Bragg Gratings for Optical Sensing) to measure temperature, and the GMR (Giant Magneto-Resistance) system to study magnetic fluxes in the Earth's magnetic field."
