The American company Space X has successfully launched the Italian Earth observation satellite COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation 2 (CSG-2). The re-launch of the reusable Falcon 9 rocket – which returned to Earth – was made from the space center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a delay of four days and corresponding successive postponements due to bad weather.
Deployment of COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 confirmed pic.twitter.com/uT07VHNRrF
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 1, 2022
The satellite was built by the French-Italian company Thales Alenia Space and will be controlled by the Italian Space Agency, from the Fuccino space center east of Rome.
The satellite images will be used for defense purposes, intelligence gathering, ship monitoring, natural disaster monitoring, natural resource exploration, mapping, environmental protection, etc.
It is the second CSG satellite launched by Italy, in collaboration with the Italian space agency and the country’s Ministries of Defense and Education and Research. The first CSG-1 was launched in December 2019 with an Arianespace Soyuz rocket from the European Kouros Space Center in French Guiana. Both satellites will move at an altitude of 620 kilometers from Earth.
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