COSMO-SkyMed Mission status
- Paper number
IAC-08.B1.2.9
- Author
Mr. Fabrizio Battazza, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Alessandro Coletta, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Fabio Covello, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Giovanni Valentini, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mrs. Simona Zoffoli, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Ettore Lopinto, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Year
2008
- Abstract
COSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) is the largest Italian investment in Space Systems for Earth Observation, commissioned and funded by Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD). COSMO-SkyMed is a Dual-Use (Civilian and Defence) end-to-end Earth Observation System aimed to establish a global service supplying provision of data, products and services compliant with well-established international standards and relevant to a wide range of applications, such as Risk Management, Scientific and Commercial Applications and Defence/Intelligence Applications. The system consists of a constellation of four Low Earth Orbit mid-sized satellites, each equipped with a multi-mode high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) operating at X-band and fitted with particularly flexible and innovative data acquisition and transmission equipment. The system is completed by dedicated full featured Ground infrastructures for managing the constellation and granting ad-hoc services for collection, archiving and distribution of acquired remote sensing data. COSMO-SkyMed is a highly innovative system which strongly pursues a Multi Mission approach thanks to its intrinsic Inter-operability with other EO missions and Expandability towards other possible partners with different sensors typologies to implement an integrated space-based system providing Earth Observation integrated services to large User Communities and Partner Countries (IEM capability). The first and second COSMO-SkyMed satellites have been successfully launched the 8th of June and the 9th of December 2007 from the Vanderberg Air Force Base in California (US), while the remaining 2 satellites will be gradually deployed by the end of 2009. COSMO-SkyMed 1 is completing its Commissioning phase to test, verify and qualify the overall System, COSMO-SkyMed 2 is in Commissioning phase. The operational phase starts in the first months of 2008. The first COSMO-SkyMed Announcement of Opportunity for scientific data exploitation is presented together with preliminary results coming from the first images generated by COSMO-SkyMed 1 and COSMO-SkyMed 2 satellites.
- Abstract document
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