Status
Success
Kondor-E
Launch Time
Fri Dec 19, 2014 04:43 UTC
Fri Dec 19, 2014 04:43 UTC
Last flight of Strela.
Rocket
Mission Details
Kondor-E
The Kondor-E is a small radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya. It is built for a foreign customer, the military of South Africa under Project "Consolidated Flute". It is unclear, if South Africa holds the ownership of the satellite.
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 prototype was named Cosmos 2487. A civilian version is being developped as Kondor-FKA.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,100.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
Site 175/59, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
2014
86th orbital launch attempt
Strela
3rd mission
1st mission of 2014
3rd successful mission