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Cosmo-SkyMed (2): the Fucino Space Centre successfully took over the second satellite

Avezzano, Italy - Kiruna, North Pole and Cordoba are the other stations involved in the control operations

The Italian COSMO-SkyMed system, the first dual-use global Earth observation constellation, has been regularly taken over at 04:39:01 (Italian time) of December 9, 2007 by the Fucino Space Centre of Telespazio, which will coordinate the operations throughout the mission. The satellite was successfully launched 68 minutes earlier, at 06:31:43 pm, from the California base of Vandenberg, with a Boeing...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1083291
Rome, Italy, 12/10/2007 16:55
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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