The Scanway Optical Payload 200 is an optical payload from the Polish company Scanway.
The Bremen-based startup Marble Imaging is planning to provide high-quality Earth observation images and analyses with its own European constellation of up to 200 small satellites, each weighing just under 100 kilograms. In this way, the company aims to help improve responsiveness and decision-making capabilities, particularly when it comes to climate adaptation and solutions, sustainability, security and crisis and disaster management. The first satellite is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2025. With this idea, Marble Imaging has won the small satellite payload competition organised by the German Space Agency, DLR, which will enable the development and launch of the demonstration satellite for the future constellation. At ILA 2024, the startup will present a high-resolution telescope for Earth observation applications – the Scanway Optical Payload (SOP) 200 from Polish cooperation partner Scanway. An advanced version of this multispectral camera is currently being developed and will record data in various spectral ranges such as visible (VIS) light, near infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR).
In the visible and near infrared range, the camera will be able to record images with a very high ground resolution of 75 centimetres. In addition to an additional panchromatic channel, the cameras in the planned Marble constellation will also have three further channels in the short-wave infrared range, which will be used to record data with a ground resolution of more than ten metres. The camera was developed according to the Space 4.0 philosophy. The individual production steps are closely interlinked using information and communications technology. Intelligent, digitally networked systems are intended to enable largely self-organised production. Thanks to the comprehensive exchange of data, human and machine are able to work together much more effectively to improve the entire value chain.
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