Belgium will produce VNREDSat-1B for Vietnam

VNREDSat-1B satellite produced by 3 Belgian companies according to Vietnamese orders is expected to be launched in 2017.

The signing ceremony of commercial contracts to provide earth observation satellites produced by 3 Belgian companies for Vietnam took place at 15h40 this afternoon, January 20 in Hanoi under the witness of Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Johan Vande. Lanotte and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

Vietnam's first remote sensing satellite VNREDSat-1 in orbit

Small satellite VNREDSat-1B (Viet Nam's natural resources and natural disaster monitoring satellite - 1B) originated from the PROBA satellite group.

VNREDSat-1B can capture super-spectral and full-color images of Vietnam and the rest of the world with a width of 100km, allowing monitoring of agricultural activities, forests, water quality in land and inshore sea, urban surface, . and contribute to the study of climate change.

VNREDSat-1B is 865mm x 679mm x654 mm and weighs about 130kg with a minimum life of 5 years. As expected, the VNREDSat-1B will fly on an orbit at an altitude of 640 +/- 10km and a repeating shooting time at a specified location is 5 days.

Equipment for receiving, operating and processing images taken by VNREDSat-1B will be installed in Hoa Lac, near Hanoi.

VNREDSat-1B is Vietnam's second remote sensing satellite. Earlier, the first remote sensing satellite VNREDSat-1 was launched into orbit in May 2013.