José P. Ferreira, Nuno Andrada, Bruno Correia, Tiago Pinto, Rui Santos, Vitor Cristina, Sérgio Cunha
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The INFANTE project is a public–private initiative arising from the experience of Portuguese companies and R&D institutes in developing critical subsystems for space missions over the last 20 years. Using such building blocks, TEKEVER leads a consortium of 20+ entities currently developing a technology demonstrator microsatellite for Earth Observation. This paper addresses a set of technical challenges faced in the conceptualization of a satellite-borne SAR, along with new project-level approaches within the framework of new space while managing a large consortium of partners.