COSMO-SkyMed 3, the third satellite in Italy's dual-use X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth-imaging constellation, launched from Vandenberg for the Italian Space Agency and Ministry of Defense.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 14 Delta II 7420-10C flights
- Date and time
- 25 October 2008, 02:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7420-10C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2008-054
- Launches in 2008
- 56th of 69
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