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TanDEM-X – Mapping the Earth in 3DAstrium satellite complete and ready for launch campaign

Munich, Germany - High-tech radar product scheduled for launch on 21 June 2010

The German radar satellite TanDEM-X, built by Astrium, has proven its suitability for operation in space in a series of special tests at IABG in Ottobrunn, near Munich. On 11 May, the satellite will leave Germany from Munich airport and head to the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. Lift-off aboard a Russian Dnepr launcher is scheduled for 21 June 2010. As with the TerraSAR-X ‘sister mission’, the...

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Rome, Italy, 04/30/2010 19:37
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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