Boeing to launch final Cosmo-Skymed satellite
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 12:27 PM ET (1727 GMT)
Boeing announced Friday that it has won a contract to launch the fourth and final satellite for an Italian remote sensing system. A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 will launch Cosmo-Skymed 4 in 2010 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, in a launch procured by Boeing Launch Services, which sells Delta launches commercially. Delta rockets launched the first three Cosmo-Skymed satellites in 2007 and 2008. The Cosmo-Skymed satellites are built by Thales Alenia Space Italia for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defense, providing synthetic aperture radar imagery.
Boeing announced Friday that it has won a contract to launch the fourth and final satellite for an Italian remote sensing system. A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 will launch Cosmo-Skymed 4 in 2010 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, in a launch procured by Boeing Launch Services, which sells Delta launches commercially. Delta rockets launched the first three Cosmo-Skymed satellites in 2007 and 2008. The Cosmo-Skymed satellites are built by Thales Alenia Space Italia for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defense, providing synthetic aperture radar imagery.
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