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SWOT Satellite Reconstructed Attitude Data

Metadata Updated: April 9, 2026

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: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 9, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 9, 2026
Publisher Jet Propulsion Laboratory;NASA/JPL/PODAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.5067/SWOT-ATTD-2.0
Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
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 987cc768-d103-42bc-bfde-02c62339f87b
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
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 04514cd54d7e04ac98d65cb14319f87dbc88e078eace59a386f9fa0b18568b27
Source Schema Version 1.1
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