Final SAR-Lupe satellite launched
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2008, 7:31 AM ET (1131 GMT)
A Russian Kosmos rocket launched the fifth and final satellite in a German military radar satellite constellation on Tuesday. The Kosmos 3M rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 10:40 pm EDT Monday (0240 GMT Tuesday) and placed the SAR-Lupe 5 satellite into a 550-kilometer orbit. The launch completes the SAR-Lupe constellation of spacecraft that will provide radar imagery for the German military. The satellites were all launched on Kosmos boosters between late 2006 and today.
A Russian Kosmos rocket launched the fifth and final satellite in a German military radar satellite constellation on Tuesday. The Kosmos 3M rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 10:40 pm EDT Monday (0240 GMT Tuesday) and placed the SAR-Lupe 5 satellite into a 550-kilometer orbit. The launch completes the SAR-Lupe constellation of spacecraft that will provide radar imagery for the German military. The satellites were all launched on Kosmos boosters between late 2006 and today.
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