Kosmos-3M launched SAR-Lupe 5 from Plesetsk, the fifth and final satellite in Germany's SAR-Lupe military radar reconnaissance constellation, completing the network that provides one-meter-resolution X-band radar imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 770 kg
- Flight
- 443rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 22 July 2008, 02:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2008-036
- Launches in 2008
- 36th of 69
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