A converted ICBM launched RapidEye's five-satellite commercial Earth-imaging constellation (RapidEye A through E) from Baikonur into sun-synchronous orbit, giving the German operator daily coverage of up to 4 million square kilometers for agricultural and environmental monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 22 Dnepr 1 flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 2008, 07:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Dnepr 1
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 109/95, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2008-040
- Launches in 2008
- 42nd of 69
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