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AMAZONIA 1
Brazilian Deforestation Monitoring Satellite (Founding Domestic Satellite) · INPE (Brazil)
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Amazonia-1 is Brazil's answer to a genuinely uncomfortable dependency: for decades, the country most responsible for protecting the Amazon rainforest had to rely on foreign satellites to actually watch it disappear. Launched in 2021 as Brazil's first fully domestically-built and operated Earth observation satellite, Amazonia-1 now tracks deforestation across the rainforest using imagery Brazil owns outright — no licensing fees, no foreign government able to restrict access during a political dispute.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 471–473 mi (759–761 km)
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- One orbit
- 99.9 minutes14.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 47699
- Int’l designator
- 2021-015A
- Launched
- 2021
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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