Status
Success
Cosmos 2487
Launch Time
Thu Jun 27, 2013 16:53 UTC
Thu Jun 27, 2013 16:53 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Cosmos 2487
The Kondor, alias Cosmos 2487, is a small military radar Earth observation satellite prototype designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya.
The Kondor satellite features a S-band synthetic apperture radar (SAR), which can conduct both continous swath surweys or detailed spot surveys. The swath width is 10 km. Ground resolution is 1-2 m in spotlight mode, 1-3 m in stripmap mode and 5-30 m in ScanSAR mode.
The operational version is named Kondor-E 1.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,100.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
Site 175/59, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
2013
33rd orbital launch attempt
Strela
2nd mission
1st mission of 2013
2nd successful mission