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JERS-1
Japanese
Earth
Resources
Satellite
1
was a
satellite
launched
in
1992
by the
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
. It carried three instruments:
An
L-band
synthetic aperture radar
;
A nadir-pointing
optical camera
;
A side-looking
optical
camera
.
The satellite operated until
1998
and re-entered the
Earth's atmosphere
in 2001
.