The take-off took place from the Cape Canaveral base aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 carrier
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(LaPresse) After three postponements due to bad weather and one postponement due to a cruise ship in the off-limits area, the second satellite of the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation (Csg ) promoted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Ministry of Defense with the contribution of the Ministry of University and Research. To bring it into orbit, the Falcon 9 vector of the American company SpaceX. The launch, explains ASI, will allow the operation of the entire Cosmo-SkyMed constellation in orbit for more than fifteen years to continue, increasing its overall capabilities. The primary objective of Csg is to provide dual users, civil and military, with Earth Observation services through a wide portfolio of products, obtained in the various operating modes of the SAR sensor (Synthetic Aperture Radar), both in narrow field and resolution. ultra-fine than wide-field.
February 1, 2022 – Updated February 1, 2022, 9:24 am
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