Editing Radarsat-1 (section)

== End of service ==
On 4 November 2010, RADARSAT-1 celebrated its 15-year service anniversary.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/media/news_releases/2010/1104.asp|title=Canadian satellite RADARSAT-1 celebrating 15 years of service to Canada and the world|access-date=2010-11-15|publisher=Canadian Space Agency|date=4 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218235335/http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/media/news_releases/2010/1104.asp|archive-date=18 December 2010}}</ref> It outlived its planned five-year lifetime by a wide margin. [[Radarsat-2]] was launched on 14 December 2007 from [[Baikonur]], [[Kazakhstan]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/soyuz-rocket-lifts-canadian-radar-satellite-into-space-1.691231|title=Soyuz rocket lifts Canadian radar satellite into space|access-date=2007-12-14|publisher=CBC News|date=14 December 2007}}</ref>

RADARSAT-1 covered the [[Arctic]] daily, and most of Canada every 72 hours depending on instrument orientation and mode. It covered the entire Earth every 24 days.

On 29 March 2013, RADARSAT-1 experienced a technical problem. The [[Canadian Space Agency|Canadian Space Agency (CSA)]] assembled a team of engineers, who conducted an extensive investigation. Following numerous attempts to resolve the problem, the CSA, in consultation with its commercial data distributor [[MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates|MDA Geospatial Services Inc.]] concluded that RADARSAT-1 was no longer operational.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/media/news_releases/2013/0509.asp|title=RADARSAT-1: Seventeen Years of Technological Success|access-date=2013-05-30 |publisher=Canadian Space Agency|date=9 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624011736/http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/media/news_releases/2013/0509.asp|archive-date=24 June 2013}}</ref>