HiROS

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HiROS ( Hi gh R esolution O ptical S ystem German: high-resolution optical system) was a planned satellite project for earth exploration . It should achieve a resolution of 0.5 meters with light in the visible range and in the near infrared range . HiROS has a mass of 820 kg. HiROS was developed by the German Aerospace Center and was intended to serve environmental monitoring and disaster control as well as being used by the German Federal Intelligence Service and the US government.

The embassy dispatches published on Wikileaks show that the Federal Intelligence Service was the main customer of the project. He was assigned 30% of the planned capacity. After the dispatches became known, the federal government no longer wanted to support the project with a three-digit million sum. The project was partly the subject of a small request from politicians on the left to the federal government. In July 2014, DLR announced that "all national activities for the HiROS concept have been discontinued."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Julian Wolf: Federal government does not want to support HiROS satellites financially. Gulli, January 8, 2011, archived from the original on January 25, 2013 ; Retrieved January 22, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Per Anders Johansen: De skjuler spiesatellitter som miljøtiltak. Aftenposten, January 3, 2011, archived from the original on January 15, 2011 ; Retrieved January 22, 2011 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ Project "Hiros": Federal government does not want to give any money for spy satellites. Spiegel Online, January 8, 2011, accessed January 22, 2011 .
  4. ^ German Bundestag: Brief question to the Federal Government; Printed matter 17/4997 and 17/5281
  5. ↑ Development of HiROS. FragDenStaat.de , accessed on August 28, 2014 .

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