, PARIS: The first SAR-Lupe satellite, the German reconnaissance satellite-based system, was successfully boosted into orbit today from the Plesezsk space center. Alcatel Alenia Space has supplied the Sensor Electronic units forming the core of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), set to provide high-resolution radar imagery to the German defense forces starting in 2007.
The SAR-Lupe program comprises a constellation of five identical small satellites (770 kg
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