Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1) was a satellite launched in 1992 by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA, now part of JAXA). It carried three instruments:
The satellite operated until 1998 and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in 2001.
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