{"id":63388,"date":"2018-12-20T01:32:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-successfully-launches-french-cso-1-satellite\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:32:44","slug":"arianespace-successfully-launches-french-cso-1-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-successfully-launches-french-cso-1-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Successfully Launches French CSO-1 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>For its 11th and final launch of the year, <strong>Arianespace<\/strong>\u2018s Soyuz medium-lift launcher lifted off from Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana at 1:37 p.m. local time today. Arianespace successfully orbited the CSO-1 military Earth observation satellite for the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) and the French Government Defense procurement agency (DGA) on behalf of the French Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>CSO-1 was placed in a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers and will acquire 3D pictures and very-high-resolution images in the visible and infrared bandwidths. CSO-1 is the first satellite of the Optical Space Component (CSO) program, comprising a constellation of three new-generation satellites for the French Ministry of Defense. They will carry out two different missions: reconnaissance for CSO-1 and CSO-3, and identification for CSO-2. As the successor to the Helios 1 and 2 systems, CSO aims to address France and Europe\u2019s operational needs for global intelligence and strategic surveillance, knowledge of the geographic environment, and support for operational deployments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Airbus Defense and Space <\/strong>France is prime contractor for the satellites, while <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> France is supplying the optical imaging instrument. After the Helios 1 and 2 satellites (the first and second generation of military observation satellites), the third-generation CSO spacecraft will be accessible to European partners through bilateral agreements with France as part of the Multinational Space-based Imaging System for Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Observation (MUSIS) program. Germany, Sweden and Belgium already have joined the CSO user community, and an agreement with Italy will be signed shortly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For its 11th and final launch of the year, Arianespace\u2018s Soyuz medium-lift launcher lifted off from Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana at 1:37 p.m. local time today. Arianespace successfully orbited the CSO-1 military Earth observation satellite for the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) and the French Government Defense procurement agency (DGA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}