The teams of German Aerospace Centere (DLR) and Astrium have successfully demonstrated the operational readiness of the satellite, thus the collection of data for a global homogeneous DEM can start – as planned – in early 2011.
The TanDEM-X mission was developed jointly by DLR and Astrium and is being operated at DLR’s Oberpfaffenhofen site. The commercial marketing of the TanDEM-X data will be conducted by Astrium’s GEO-Information Services Division. The mission’s goal is the creation of a globally homogeneous Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with an unprecedented accuracy and coverage.