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The COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The four first-generation COSMO-SkyMed satellites were launched between 2007 and 2010 and remain operational.
SpaceX launched the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission to low Earth orbit on 2022-01-14.
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.
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 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.
The first-generation Cosmo-SkyMed satellites launched between 2007 and 2010 and all four are operating well beyond their intended lifetimes.
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.
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.
Cosmo-SkyMed provides synthetic aperture radar imagery to military and civilian users.
The two newly ordered satellites will complete the second-generation Cosmo-SkyMed constellation and allow Italy to retire its first-generation Cosmo-SkyMed satellites.
Thales Alenia Space manufactured the 2.2-metric-ton Cosmo-SkyMed satellite for the Italian Space Agency.
Thales Alenia Space will leverage its experience with Cosmo-SkyMed, a four-satellite constellation funded by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence that launched between 2007 and 2010.