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From Vanderberg Air Force Base in California, our country's aerospace history marked a new milestone by putting into orbit FASat-Delta, a high-resolution satellite co-owned by FACH and ISI.
The Chilean satellite was launched Monday afternoon by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the U.S. Space Force base, and successfully undocked from the capsule carrying it.
FASat-Delta is a satellite platform developed by the Israeli company ImageSat International (ISI) and the American company Tyvak. This space system is located in the range of small satellites (SmallSat) with a weight of 90 kg and will be placed in a low Earth orbit (LEO: Low Earth Orbit) of 550 km.
This satellite, shared with the ISI company, will complement the sovereign capacity of access to information from space. In this context, during each day of the operation, our country will have the power to acquire images throughout the globe.
Within the framework of the SNSat project, FASat-Delta is part of a constellation that considers the progressive incorporation of 13 new satellites. These systems will increase and diversify the information that, as a country, we can acquire from space. These data may be used for different applications both in the civil field and National Defense.
The launch of FASat-Delta is the milestone with which a new era begins in the national space field, allowing the development of its own capabilities for the manufacture of microsatellites, storage, processing and distribution of geospatial information, both for the academic field and for public institutions that require it.
Among the applications and benefits of Fasat Delta are:
Agricultural studies
Climate change strategies
Catastrophe monitoring
Information for observation of the planet
Satellite communications
Get images in better quality and more quantity
Water resources monitoring
Expedite search and rescue of missing persons
Space services
This is the first important milestone of the new National Satellite System (SNSat), part of the National Space Program in which different institutions and academia participate.
