Warren Cartwright
Product Manager
MDA Geospatial Services Inc.
Canada

Biography
Warren Cartwright joined MDA in 2012. He is currently a Product Manager with MDA Geospatial Services Inc. This group provides advanced geospatial information solutions derived from the high-resolution RADARSAT satellites, commercial optical satellites, and aerial systems to improve the decision making and operational performance of business, government, and defence organizations worldwide. Prior to his current position, Mr. Cartwright was the Director of Product Management for the Business Intelligence division of a large software company. He has also held a number of Product Marketing and Product Management roles.

Abstract
The RADARSAT Program: A Mid-Mission Progress Report

RADARSAT is one of the most successful and important commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation programs, having contributed data, products and services to the global Earth observation community since 1995. MDA has been deeply involved in all aspects of the program, having designed, built and operated all of the missions to date. RADARSAT-1 was launched in November 1995 with a five-year design life, which it exceeded by over 13 years, when it reached its end of life in April 2013. RADARSAT-2, the current mission, was the successful follow-on, and was launched in December 2007. It provides continuity into the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM). RCM is a constellation of three SAR Earth observation satellites, and is scheduled to launch in 2018. At the 7-year anniversary of the start of operations of RADARSAT-2, we provide the Earth observation community with an update on the status of the mission. This presentation provides a status summary of the satellite, system, and operations performance, describes some highlights of recent challenges, changes, and achievements, and outlines some enhancement work in progress and in future plans for RADARSAT-2. In addition, the presentation will provide an overview of the plans for the launch and operations of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, and how RCM will provide data continuity for the users of RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2. The RADARSAT Program has a bright future ahead of it, and we encourage you to join us as we explore the past, present and future of the mission.