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Launch Date
10/8/2018
Launch Site
VS SLC4E
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
CONAE will operate Saocom-1A as part of the Argentine-Italian System of Satellites with the Italian Space Agency and will coordinate observations with Italy’s four Cosmo-SkyMed X-band SAR satellites.
Saocom-1A is a 3,000-kilogram synthetic aperture radar satellite for the Argentine space agency CONAE.
SpaceX launched the Argentine radar satellite Saocom-1A into low-Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket.
INVAP built the Saocom-1A synthetic aperture radar satellite and developed the yet-to-launch Satcom-1B SAR satellite for the Argentine space agency CONAE.
The Falcon 9 booster used on 2019-11-11 previously launched 10 Iridium Next satellites in 2018-07-01, CONAE’s Saocom-1A in 2018-10-01, and PSN’s Nusantara Satu in 2019-02-01.