RapidEye satellite constellation
| Basic Characteristics | |
| Launch date | 29 august 2008 |
| Orbit information | |
| Altitude | 630 km |
| Type | Sun-synchronous |
| Period | 96 minutes |
| Revisit | 1 day (off-nadir) / 5.5 days (at nadir) |
| Swath width | 77 km |
| Maximum off-nadir angle | 25° |
| Stereo | No |
| Mode | Multispectral | |
| Sensor resolution at nadir | 5m | |
| Spectral bandwidth | Blue | 440 - 510 nm |
| | Green | 520 - 590 nm |
| | Red | 630 - 685 nm |
| | Red-Edge | 690 - 730 nm |
| | Near IR | 760 - 850 nm |
| Dynamic range | 12 bits per pixel | |
| Products | |
| Archive / New Tasking | |
| Multispectral | Blue, Green, Red, Red-Edge, Near IR |
| Minimum sizes for orders | |
| Aoi archive | 500 km² |
| Aoi new tasking | 3500 km² |
| Metric accuracy | 45m CE90 |
| File format | NITF (L1B) / Geotif (L3A) |
RapidEye provides high-resolution satellite imagery and derived geo-information products. With a constellation of five identical EO satellites with unprecedented capabilities, RapidEye delivers the world.
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