Kosmos launches German radar satellite
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007, 7:17 AM ET (1117 GMT)
A Kosmos rocket placed a German radar imaging satellite into low Earth orbit late Monday night. The Kosmos-3M rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 3:38 pm EDT (1938 GMT) Monday and placed the SAR-Lupe 2 satellite into a 500-km polar orbit. The launch had been scheduled for Sunday night but was delayed by strong upper-level winds. The satellite is the second in a planned constellation of five satellites to provide radar imagery for the German military. The first SAR-Lupe satellite was launched in December 2006 and the remaining three will be launched by 2008.
A Kosmos rocket placed a German radar imaging satellite into low Earth orbit late Monday night. The Kosmos-3M rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 3:38 pm EDT (1938 GMT) Monday and placed the SAR-Lupe 2 satellite into a 500-km polar orbit. The launch had been scheduled for Sunday night but was delayed by strong upper-level winds. The satellite is the second in a planned constellation of five satellites to provide radar imagery for the German military. The first SAR-Lupe satellite was launched in December 2006 and the remaining three will be launched by 2008.
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