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25/10/2008
Telespazio’s Fucino Space Centre successfully acquires the third COSMO-SkyMed satellite
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At 05:35:43 CET, the third satellite of
the COSMO-SkyMed Earth observation constellation
was duly acquired by Telespazio’s Fucino
Space Centre (Finmeccanica/Thales), which
will be in charge of its operations for
the mission’s entire duration.
The satellite had been successfully launched 67 minutes earlier, at 04:28:25, via a Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. The launch phase lasted around 58 minutes. Subsequently, the satellite was released from the launcher into a polar orbit at a height of about 690 km, on the same orbital plane as the two other satellites in the
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constellation, which are already in orbit and were launched respectively in June and December last year. Around ten minutes after the separation, the Telespazio team at Fucino acquired a connection with COSMO-SkyMed 3.
Other terrestrial stations involved in the satellite control operations managed by the Fucino Control Centre are in Kiruna (Sweden), the North Pole (Alaska) and Cordoba (Argentina). All the stations are equipped to receive telemetric signals, transmit commands and perform functions related to defining the orbit.
Nota stampa Telespazio
Press release Telespazio
Comunicato stampa 25/10/2008
Press release 25/10/2008
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