The Falcon 9 booster used for the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission completed its third launch and landing with this mission.
Falcon 9 launched the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Falcon 9 booster that launched COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 previously supported the launches of Arabsat-6A and STP-2.
The COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation system consists of two satellites designed to observe Earth using synthetic aperture radar.
The second COSMO-SkyMed CSG satellite was launched at 00:11 CET from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX launched the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission to low Earth orbit on 2022-01-14.
The COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
CSG-2 is the second of four second-generation Cosmo-SkyMed satellites intended to replace the original Cosmo-SkyMed satellites launched between 2007 and 2010.
The Emergency Mapping Rapid Mapping service for Copernicus involving COSMO-SkyMed is operated by an international consortium led by e-GEOS, which is owned 80% by Telespazio and 20% by ASI.
The Falcon 9 upper stage deployed the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation 2 (CSG-2) satellite for the Italian space agency ASI and the Italian military one hour after liftoff.
The four first-generation COSMO-SkyMed satellites were launched between 2007 and 2010 and remain operational.
The COSMO-SkyMed system provides Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation services that support environmental monitoring, territory monitoring, safety, and emergency management.
A Falcon 9 launch carrying a Cosmo-Skymed Second Generation radar imaging satellite for the Italian space agency ASI was expected in late January 2022.
The constellation is planned to expand through launches of additional COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation satellites and ISI additions of two EROS C Electro-Optical ultra-high-resolution satellites and two EROSAR high-resolution satellites.
The joint constellation includes five COSMO-SkyMed and COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation dual-use SAR satellites owned by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence.
Airbus teams will lead the User Ground Segment operations for CSO, as Airbus currently does for Helios, Pleiades, SarLupe, and Cosmo-SkyMed.
Italy launched the first of the initial second-generation Cosmo-SkyMed satellites in December 2019 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket booked through Arianespace.
The contract provides nearly €300 million ($365,000,000) to build two second-generation Cosmo-SkyMed satellites scheduled to launch in early 2024 and early 2025, likely aboard a Vega C or Soyuz rocket.
The first-generation Cosmo-SkyMed satellites launched between 2007 and 2010 and all four are operating well beyond their intended lifetimes.
On 2020-12-15, the Italian government ordered two additional Cosmo-SkyMed radar imaging satellites from Thales Alenia Space and contracted Telespazio to upgrade the constellation’s ground segment.