Saturday, May 31, 2008

Cosmo-Skymed 1

 2007-023A


COSMO: Constellation of Satellites for Mediterranean Basin Observation.

ASI's Skymed-Cosmo will use an Alenia Prisma (Globalstar) bus. It will carry weather, disaster warning and remote sensing payloads.

Optical/radar sensing sats developed by Italy, 600 kg, Owner is ASI and Italian ministry of defense. Control from Fucino.

Prima bus.

SAR-2000 for SkyMed-Cosmo. Mass 1870 kg. Box + panels; SAR antenna is 5.7 x 1.4m. Box around 1.4m cube?; solar panel span around 12m?

620 x 620 x 97.9

Launch first one by Delta 7420-10C from V.


COSMO 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2007 Jun 8  0234:00  Launch  
  T+1:04 SRB burnout 
  T+1:22 SRB sep 
  T+4:24 MECO 
  T+4:32 Stage 1 sep 
  T+4:37 SEIG-1 
  T+4:41 Fairing sep
 0245:25 T+11:25 SECO-1  182 x 644 x 97.8 
 0327:27 T+53:27 SEIG-2 
 0327:39 T+53:39 SECO-2 
 0332:00 T+58:00 Stage 2 sep 
  T+1:16:40 SEIG-3 evasive 
  T+1:16:45 SECO-3  174 x 628 x 97.8 
 0353 T+1:19 Depletion burn  
2007 Nov 9   97.16 621 x 623 x 97.9  

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