NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

SAR-Lupe 5

Launch Time
Tue Jul 22, 2008 02:40 UTC

Rocket

Cosmos-3M
Image Credit: OKB-586
VKS RF
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 1,486 kN
Payload to LEO: 1,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 32.42 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.44 m
Fairing Height: 5.72 m

Mission Details

SAR-Lupe 5

The SAR-Lupe radar reconnaissance spacecraft - the first german military satellites - feature a synthetic apperure radar (SAR), which has a spatial resolution of less than 1 meter. Due to the intelligent combination of existing technologies, SAR-Lupe operates independently of weather conditions on a 7/24 basis. It delivers up-to-date and highly detailed images from virtually all regions of the world. Data os transmitted by a X-band transmitter and encrypted S-band ise used for telemetry and command transmissions both direct to ground stations or via SAR-Lupe intersatellite links.

The system consists of a constellation of five identical satellites in three orbital planes, which was built at a cost of +250 million Euro.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 770.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 132/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

2008

36th orbital launch attempt

Cosmos-3

477th mission
3rd mission of 2008
448th successful mission
20th consecutive successful mission