COSMO-SkyMed
Sign in to saveCOSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation) is an Earth-observation satellite space-based radar system funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and Ministry of Defence and conducted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), intended for both military and civilian use. The prime contractor for the spacecraft was Thales Alenia Space. COSMO SkyMed is a constellation of four dual use Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISR) Earth observation satellites with a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) as main payload, the result of the in
Key facts
- Spacecraft class.name
- COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation
- Spacecraft class.image
- COSMO_Skymed_flare.PNG
- Spacecraft class.image_alt
- COSMO-SkyMed flare
- Spacecraft class.image_caption
- A COSMO-SkyMed flare above the UK
- Spacecraft class.image_size
- 300px
- Spacecraft class.manufacturer
- Thales Alenia Space
- Spacecraft class.country
- Italy
- Spacecraft class.operator
- ASI
- Spacecraft class.applications
- Earth observation radar
- Spacecraft class.website
- http://www.cosmo-skymed.it/it/index.htm
- Spacecraft class.spacecraft_bus
- PRIMA
- Spacecraft class.design_life
- 7 years (planned)
- Spacecraft class.power
- 5 kW
- Spacecraft class.orbits
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Spacecraft class.status
- Operational
- Spacecraft class.built
- 3
- Spacecraft class.orders
- 4
- Spacecraft class.launched
- 3
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- COSMO-SkyMed first generation
- List of launches
- COSMO-SkyMed second generation (CSG)
- List of launches
- Ground segment
- SAR capabilities
- Commercialization
- Flares
- See also
- References
- External links
COSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation) is an Earth-observation satellite space-based radar system funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and Ministry of Defence and conducted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), intended for both military and civilian use. The prime contractor for the spacecraft was Thales Alenia Space. COSMO SkyMed is a constellation of four dual use Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISR) Earth observation satellites with a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) as main payload, the result of the intuition of Giorgio Perrotta in the early nineties. The synthetic-aperture radar was developed starting in the late nineties with the SAR 2000 program funded by ASI.
The space segment of the system includes four identical medium-sized satellites called COSMO-SkyMed (or COSMO) 1, 2, 3, 4, equipped with synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) sensors with global coverage of the planet. Observations of an area of interest can be repeated several times a day in all-weather conditions. The imagery is applied to defense and security assurance in Italy and other countries, seismic hazard analysis, environmental disaster monitoring, and agricultural mapping.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “COSMO-SkyMed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.