Dnepr launches German radar satellite
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 7:14 AM ET (1114 GMT)
For the second time in less than a week a Dnepr rocket placed a European satellite into orbit on Monday. The Dnepr rocket, a converted SS-18 ICBM, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and placed the 1.3-tonne TanDEM-X satellite into a 514-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit. The spacecraft, operated by a public-private partnership between the German space agency DLR and Astrium, is a twin of TerraSAR-X, a radar imaging satellite launched in 2007. The two satellites will operate in parallel to generate a 3-D elevation model of the Earth. Last week another Dnepr rocket launched the Prisma and Picard satellites for Sweden and France from an ICBM base at Yasny, Russia.
For the second time in less than a week a Dnepr rocket placed a European satellite into orbit on Monday. The Dnepr rocket, a converted SS-18 ICBM, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and placed the 1.3-tonne TanDEM-X satellite into a 514-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit. The spacecraft, operated by a public-private partnership between the German space agency DLR and Astrium, is a twin of TerraSAR-X, a radar imaging satellite launched in 2007. The two satellites will operate in parallel to generate a 3-D elevation model of the Earth. Last week another Dnepr rocket launched the Prisma and Picard satellites for Sweden and France from an ICBM base at Yasny, Russia.
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