{"id":692940,"date":"2026-01-13T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692940\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:02:26","slug":"thailands-theos-2a-satellite-launch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692940\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s THEOS-2A satellite launch today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand\u2019s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) said THEOS-2A, a high-resolution Earth observation satellite, is scheduled to lift off today (Monday, January 12, 2026) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India, and has invited the public to watch the launch live at 11.47am (Thailand time).<\/p>\n<p>Where to watch the live stream<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768298542_208_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Watch live: Thailand\u2019s THEOS-2A satellite launch today\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n        <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>About THEOS-2A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GISTDA says THEOS-2A is Thailand\u2019s third Earth observation satellite, following THEOS-1 and THEOS-2, developed and managed by GISTDA under the THEOS-2 project.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is a SmallSat (around the 100kg class) designed and built through collaboration between more than 20 Thai satellite engineers and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of the UK, with deployment planned for a sun-synchronous orbit at roughly 550km altitude.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768298544_503_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Watch live: Thailand\u2019s THEOS-2A satellite launch today\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>Key components highlighted by GISTDA include:<\/p>\n<ol>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>A whip antenna for detecting ship signals<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>A patch antenna for GNSS-based satellite positioning<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>A launcher interface ring<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>A sun-angle sensor<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Solar panels charging the satellite\u2019s battery system<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>A high-resolution colour camera capable of 1.18m per pixel imaging at 550km altitude<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ol>\n<p>GISTDA says THEOS-2A will strengthen Thailand\u2019s satellite imagery capability by adding to the Earth observation data already provided by its satellite services, supporting broader applications across multiple sectors.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768298545_464_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Watch live: Thailand\u2019s THEOS-2A satellite launch today\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 819px; height: 1024px;\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768298545_737_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Watch live: Thailand\u2019s THEOS-2A satellite launch today\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 819px; height: 1024px;\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) said THEOS-2A, a high-resolution Earth observation satellite, is scheduled to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[1500,208951,177832,21334,70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-692940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-gistda","10":"tag-observation","11":"tag-satellite","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115887220287064867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}