{"id":12471,"date":"2023-10-09T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12471"},"modified":"2023-10-09T20:18:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:18:45","slug":"theos-2-satellite-for-thailand-successfully-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12471","title":{"rendered":"THEOS-2 satellite for Thailand successfully launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus Group SE <strong>(Paris: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/equities\/eads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIR<\/a>)<\/strong> THEOS-2 Earth observation satellite has been successfully launched on a Vega rocket from Kourou, Europe\u2019s spaceport in French Guiana. The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand (GISTDA) selected Airbus as partner for its next-generation national geo-information system in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>THEOS-2 follows the Airbus-built THEOS-1 satellite launched in 2008, which still continues to deliver imagery well beyond its 10-year operational lifetime. In the frame of THEOS-2 programme, GISTDA\u2019s geo-information system benefits from satellite imagery collected by the Airbus constellation of optical and radar Earth observation satellites such as Pl\u00e9iades and TerraSAR-X.<\/p>\n<p>The contract also includes a second Earth observation satellite &#8211; THEOS-2 SmallSAT &#8211; from Airbus\u2019 subsidiary SSTL, combined with a comprehensive capacity building programme involving Thai engineers in the development of applications, ground segment and the SmallSAT spacecraft itself. THEOS-2 SmallSAT is based on SSTL\u2019s CARBONITE series of Earth observation spacecraft\u00a0and has been delivered to Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12472 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/THEOS-2_2-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/THEOS-2_2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/THEOS-2_2-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/THEOS-2_2-676x901.png 676w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/THEOS-2_2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THEOS-2 satellite in anechoic chamber &#8211; Copyright Airbus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hola-icon-globe\" style=\"top: 62px; left: 245px;\" src=\"safari-extension:\/\/A2756CB2-3B9B-4C54-AF34-C76121066CFD\/logoCircleBlack.svg\" alt=\"Hola\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus Group SE (Paris: AIR) THEOS-2 Earth observation satellite has been successfully launched on a Vega rocket from Kourou, Europe\u2019s spaceport in French Guiana. The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand (GISTDA) selected Airbus as partner for its next-generation national geo-information system in 2018. THEOS-2 follows the Airbus-built THEOS-1 satellite launched in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,798,7890,5637,4552,13618,8222,1836,5174,5992,5670,7929,2203,4957,5676,8651,8809,13831,10674,5446,10169,4882,10176,1397,10195],"tags":[1518,167,3107,539,47,11254,3977,988,15991,1436,10888,4512,79,430,3796,4335,2493,4681,2020,4889,2837,595,9844,1767,2245,207,1631,1182,13060,15984,1555,745,1883,6156,15985,1681,15983,2479,6155,9432,1567,889,843,412,1181,6160,6161,100,5013,15986,2633,2169,4084,1154,4518,3746,1286,3328,3397,5209,15989,937,2812,1692,15990,101,2164,9353,1177,1093,15988,15987,13438,159,15981,15982,839],"class_list":["post-12471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-airbus-news","category-asia-news","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-defense-news","category-drone-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-latin-america-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-space-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","tag-1518","tag-aerospace","tag-agency","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-applications","tag-built","tag-business","tag-carbonite","tag-civil","tag-collected","tag-communications","tag-constellation","tag-contract","tag-customers","tag-delivered","tag-demand","tag-develop","tag-development","tag-earth","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-engineers","tag-europe","tag-exchange","tag-france","tag-french","tag-generation","tag-geo","tag-gistda","tag-ground","tag-group","tag-growth","tag-guiana","tag-imagery","tag-industry","tag-informatics","tag-information","tag-kourou","tag-launched","tag-market","tag-military","tag-national","tag-news","tag-next","tag-observation","tag-optical","tag-paris","tag-partner","tag-pleiades","tag-products","tag-program","tag-radar","tag-rocket","tag-sat","tag-satellite","tag-se","tag-segment","tag-series","tag-small","tag-smallsat","tag-space","tag-spacecraft","tag-spaceport","tag-sstl","tag-stock","tag-subsidiary","tag-successfully","tag-system","tag-technology","tag-terrasar","tag-terrasar-x","tag-thai","tag-thailand","tag-theos-2","tag-vega","tag-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12476,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions\/12476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}