The third COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation satellite reached orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in January 2026.
Marcin Mazur co-chaired the Polish-Italian working group for the COSMO-SkyMed and OPTSAT-3000 satellite programs.
The SAOCOM constellation and the first- and second-generation COSMO-SkyMed satellites form the Italian-Argentine Satellite System for Emergency Management (SIASGE).
e-GEOS is the exclusive distributor of the COSMO-SkyMed constellation.
The SAOCOM 1A and 1B satellites operate with Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed constellation under the Italian-Argentine Satellite System for Emergency Management (SIASGE).
Space Guardian is intended to be interoperable with Copernicus, IRIDE, and COSMO-SkyMed.
The study integrated radar data from ESA's ERS missions, the Canadian RADARSAT satellite, Japan's ALOS PALSAR, Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed, Germany's TerraSAR-X, Argentina's SAOCOM, the ICEYE constellation, and Sentinel-1.
In approximately 24 hours the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana made available about 400 COSMO-SkyMed archive images covering a 40×40 kilometer area at 3-meter resolution acquired since 2010 under the MapItaly acquisition plan.
The satellite data from COSMO-SkyMed and SAOCOM were transferred to the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Florence for analysis.
The COSMO-SkyMed program, run by the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Italian Ministry of Defense, is a dual-use civil-military constellation of satellites equipped with X-band synthetic aperture radar.
The Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, as the competence center for the Department of Civil Protection for satellite data provision, is supplying COSMO-SkyMed and Argentina's SAOCOM satellite data to support emergency management and strengthen monitoring.
Claudia Facchinetti is Program Manager for COSMO-SkyMed.
The COSMO-SkyMed program involved Italian industry participants Leonardo, Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio, and e-GEOS.
The Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Italian Ministry of Defense jointly developed the COSMO-SkyMed program.
CSG-FM3 is the third second-generation satellite of the COSMO-SkyMed Earth Observation program.
Before CSG-FM3’s arrival, the Italian COSMO-SkyMed constellation comprised four operational satellites: two first-generation (CSK) and two second-generation (CSG) satellites.
All COSMO-SkyMed satellites are equipped with synthetic aperture radar that acquires high-resolution X-band images in any weather and lighting conditions.
COSMO-SkyMed is a dual civilian-military Earth observation system that was developed entirely in Italy by the national industrial supply chain.
Telespazio, in collaboration with Thales Alenia Space Italia, carried out key validation activities for COSMO SkyMed CSG FM3 during initial operations.
Critical operations required for COSMO SkyMed CSG FM3 commissioning were completed prior to starting orbital calibration and validation phases.