Scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late 2025, the CHORUS mission will collect and integrate data from multiple satellites, providing the most extensive radar imaging capacity available on the market in one system, ranging from industry leading broad area coverage with a 700 km-wide swath to sub-metre very high resolution spotlight images.

The CHORUS constellation will include a C-band and an X-band SAR satellite operating in the same unique mid-inclination orbit with the identical ground track providing day or night imaging in all weather conditions. 

This revolutionary approach will provide higher imaging performance, higher frequency imaging, variable imaging times, more imaging time per orbit, fast tasking, faster delivery timelines and Near Real-Time (NRT) data exploitation aided by machine-learning and artificial intelligence. Adding a trailing high-resolution X-band SAR satellite to a powerful C-band SAR satellite will enhance image correlation and also unlock new use cases, including tipping and cueing techniques that will allow our leading broad area sensor to monitor an area of interest (the “tip”) and to zoom in on objects of interest (the “cue”) using the trailing high resolution sensor.

The advanced system will provide invaluable data and analytics services for a wide range of users, including governmental organizations, international defence and security agencies, environmental monitoring bodies and commercial entities.