CSO 1
12/19/2018
CSO-1 will operate in an 800-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
Arianespace orbited CSO-1 on a Soyuz mission in December 2018 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
CSO-1 operates in an 800-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit to perform a reconnaissance mission.
Arianespace scheduled a Soyuz mission in the weeks after 2018-12-04 to launch CSO-1, a French military reconnaissance satellite, as its final launch of the year.
Airbus Defence and Space was the prime contractor building the 3,565-kilogram CSO-1 satellite.
Arianespace completed its final launch of the year on 2018-12-19 by sending the French spy satellite CSO-1 into orbit on a Soyuz ST-A rocket.
The 2018-12-19 CSO-1 launch was delayed by one day due to high-altitude winds above the Guiana Space Center.