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Italian COSMO-SkyMed SAR-Satellite Launched
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The EOportal summarize a Spacemart article on the successful launch of COSMO-SkyMed, an Italian synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Both the article and Wikipedia don't provide much information on the capabilities. From the article: "[...] he COSMO-SkyMed program for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence. It is an end-to-end Earth observation dual-use (civil and military) system composed of four medium-sized satellites and supporting ground stations for orbit control systems and data reception and processing." From the wikipedia article: "The space segment of the system will include four satellites equipped with [X-Band] synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors."
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