VNREDSat-1, Vietnam’s first remote sensing satellite (Photo: Space Technology Institute)VNREDSat-1 is a proactive monitoring tool serving themanagement of natural resources and the environment, scientific research, and trainingas well as supporting the implementation of socio-economic sustainable developmentand national sovereignty safeguarding tasks.
Satellites of the same type have an average lifespan offive years, but VNREDSat-1 were used for nearly 9 years (from May 7, 2013 toNovember 9, 2021). During that time, it fulfilled its role as the first earthobservation satellite system of Vietnam by successfully providing a valuablesource of satellite images for the country.
On November 9, 2021, the VNREDSat-1 system encountered aserious technical error related to the hardware that stores operational and controldata.
The successful restoration of the system has marked a development step, bringing valuable experience to the engineers operating it and helping save a large amount of money and significantly shorten the time thesatellite is not in orbit.
Since its re-operation on April 4, the satellite has taken280 photos, with over 80 high-quality ones.
Experts and customers all assess that the photos taken by VNREDSat-1still ensure quality and efficiency to serve applications on socio-economicdevelopment and ensuring defence security./.
VNA
