| Delta launches Italian satellite Posted: Sat, Oct 25, 2008, 7:44 AM ET (1144 GMT)  A Delta 2 rocket launched the third in a series of Italian remote sensing satellites Friday night.  The Delta 2 7420-10 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 10:28 pm EDT Friday (0228 GMT Saturday) and deployed the COSMO-Skymed 3 satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit 58 minutes later.  the spacecraft is the third in a series of radar imaging satellites built by Thales Alenia Space Italia for the Italian Space Agency (ASI).  The first two spacecraft were launched on Delta 2 rockets in June and December 2007.  A fourth satellite is planned for launch in 2010, although no launch provider for that mission has been chosen yet. 
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