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SWOT Satellite Reconstructed Attitude Data

Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

Satellite attitude reconstructed from combination of onboard gyro and star tracker data. Daily 26-hour files centered at 12:00:00 (TAI) provide quaternions to represent the rotation between the spacecraft body-fixed KaRIn Metering Structure Reference Frame and the inertial Geocentric Celestial Reference Frame. Available in netCDF-4 file format with latency of < 1.5 days.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
Publisher Jet Propulsion Laboratory;NASA/JPL/PODAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.5067/SWOT-ATTD-2.0
Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 80e81dbc-2afe-404e-82f3-50fc0ee860e0
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90.0}
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash b6f72015e5aaeb9405c8823e78de894d4778d26051bc1ee6db861de5e6704465
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2022-12-16/2022-12-16

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