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Satellite Programme: Kondor-Experimental SAR Spacecraft
Programme details
Programme description
Commercially oriented satellite programme based on small platforms.
Programme managed and developed by the Russian enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPO Machine-builder, or simply NPOMash), Moskow. Possibly handed-over to the military authority of South Africa.
Active stabilisation over 3-axes.
High inclination orbit drifting or sunsynchronous, height around 500 km.
Design life: 5 years.
For further details, see
here
and document
here
.
Data circulation
Not known.
Agencies
NPOMash
Programme lifetime
2013 - 2029
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational , blue tag => planned
Kondor-Experimental SAR Spacecraft
Kondor-E
(2013-2014)
SAR-10
Kondor-E1
(2014-2019)
SAR-10
Kondor-FKA 1
(2023-2028)
SAR-10
Kondor-FKA 2
(2024-12-2029)
SAR-10