Category: News of the Saral mission

The DORIS instrument has been activated on February, 25th at 23:38 and the instrument has provided the first measurements.

The DORIS instrument has been activated and the instrument has provided the first measurements. The onboard Diode software has started to compute in real time the location and velocity of the satellite.

The convergence of the Diode orbit solution is expected around 07:00 UTC allowing its use in the ground processing of altimeter data.
The Doris instrument has been built by Thales (TSA) entity based in Elancourt - France.