- The launch is scheduled for Wednesday 2 August from Kourou
- The whole satellite system is supplied by Leonardo through Telespazio; the prime contractor leading an international group of companies
- OPTSAT-3000 will guarantee high-resolution images of any part of the globe, improving the operational and intelligence capabilities of Italy's Ministry of Defence
is pleased to announce that the Italian Ministry of Defence 's OPTSAT-3000 satellite is ready to be launched. The launch is scheduled for Wednesday 2 August at 1.58 UTC from the Kourou European spaceport in French Guyana.
OPTSAT-3000 consists of a satellite in a sun-synchronous LEO (Low Earth Orbit) orbit and of a Ground Segment for in-orbit control and for data acquisition and processing. OPTSAT-3000 will provide high-resolution images of any part of the globe, providing Italy with an autonomous national capability of Earth observation from space with a high-resolution optical sensor.
will jointly operate with the second-generation COSMO-SkyMed system of radar satellites - which has also been developed by Italian industry, with Leonardo and its joint ventures, Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) and Telespazio - integrating optical and radar data to provide the Italian Ministry of Defence with information characterised by extreme accuracy, resolution and completeness and with state-of-the-art analysis and operational tools.
Rome 31/07/2017 18:00
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