--- - description: 'COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) is a 4-spacecraft constellation, conceived by ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), and funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (MUR) and the Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD), Rome, Italy. The program is managed in cooperation of ASI and MoD. The contract was assigned to an Italian industrial team, that is in charge of the project development. Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) is the prime contractor of the end-to-end system and leads an industrial team of small and medium sized Italian companies including many from the Finmeccanica group. Telespazio is the main Ground Segment contractor responsible for the development of the control center for the constellation, and of the user’s ground segments for acquiring, processing and distributing the data gathered by the satellites for civil and defence applications. -The COSMO-SkyMed program represents the largest Italian investment in space systems for Earth Observation.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cosmo-skymed display_name: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-1 end_date: 2015-06-01T00:00:00 identifier: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-1 name: 'COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 1' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2007-06-08T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-1 url: http://www.asi.it/en/activity/earth_observation/cosmoskymed - description: 'COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) is a 4-spacecraft constellation, conceived by ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), and funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (MUR) and the Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD), Rome, Italy. The program is managed in cooperation of ASI and MoD. The contract was assigned to an Italian industrial team, that is in charge of the project development. Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) is the prime contractor of the end-to-end system and leads an industrial team of small and medium sized Italian companies including many from the Finmeccanica group. Telespazio is the main Ground Segment contractor responsible for the development of the control center for the constellation, and of the user’s ground segments for acquiring, processing and distributing the data gathered by the satellites for civil and defence applications. -The COSMO-SkyMed program represents the largest Italian investment in space systems for Earth Observation.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cosmo-skymed display_name: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-2 end_date: 2015-12-01T00:00:00 identifier: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-2 name: 'COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 2' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2007-12-09T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-2 url: http://www.asi.it/en/activity/earth_observation/cosmoskymed - description: 'COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) is a 4-spacecraft constellation, conceived by ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), and funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (MUR) and the Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD), Rome, Italy. The program is managed in cooperation of ASI and MoD. The contract was assigned to an Italian industrial team, that is in charge of the project development. Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) is the prime contractor of the end-to-end system and leads an industrial team of small and medium sized Italian companies including many from the Finmeccanica group. Telespazio is the main Ground Segment contractor responsible for the development of the control center for the constellation, and of the user’s ground segments for acquiring, processing and distributing the data gathered by the satellites for civil and defence applications. -The COSMO-SkyMed program represents the largest Italian investment in space systems for Earth Observation.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cosmo-skymed display_name: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-3 end_date: 2015-10-01T00:00:00 identifier: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-3 name: 'COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 3' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2008-10-25T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-3 url: http://www.asi.it/en/activity/earth_observation/cosmoskymed - description: 'COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) is a 4-spacecraft constellation, conceived by ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), and funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (MUR) and the Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD), Rome, Italy. The program is managed in cooperation of ASI and MoD. The contract was assigned to an Italian industrial team, that is in charge of the project development. Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) is the prime contractor of the end-to-end system and leads an industrial team of small and medium sized Italian companies including many from the Finmeccanica group. Telespazio is the main Ground Segment contractor responsible for the development of the control center for the constellation, and of the user’s ground segments for acquiring, processing and distributing the data gathered by the satellites for civil and defence applications. -The COSMO-SkyMed program represents the largest Italian investment in space systems for Earth Observation.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cosmo-skymed display_name: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-4 end_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00 identifier: constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-4 name: 'COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 4' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-4 url: http://www.asi.it/en/activity/earth_observation/cosmoskymed - description: "LAGEOS-I is a of NASA - the orbit of the spacecraft (and its slight perturbations) represent the geodynamic measurements. LAGEOS-I is the first NASA satellite dedicated wholly to laser ranging. LAGEOS was designed to act as a permanent reference point so that the Earth's progress could be tracked relative to the satellite (in contrast to the traditional system of tracking satellites relative to the Earth). One of LAGEOS' functions is to aid in the understanding of the Earth's crustal motions. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) as well as many institutions around the world are tracking the LAGEOS orbit to study the dynamics of the solid Earth, to analyze (deduce) continental drift (plate tectonics, crustal deformations), the Earth's gravitational field, and the “wobble” in the Earth's axis of rotation." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/l/lageos display_name: laser-geodynamics-satellite-1 end_date: 2052-05-01T00:00:00 identifier: laser-geodynamics-satellite-1 name: 'Laser Geodynamics Satellite - 1' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1976-05-04T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/laser-geodynamics-satellite-1 url: http://www.asi.it - description: "LAGEOS-I is a of NASA - the orbit of the spacecraft (and its slight perturbations) represent the geodynamic measurements. LAGEOS-I is the first NASA satellite dedicated wholly to laser ranging. LAGEOS was designed to act as a permanent reference point so that the Earth's progress could be tracked relative to the satellite (in contrast to the traditional system of tracking satellites relative to the Earth). One of LAGEOS' functions is to aid in the understanding of the Earth's crustal motions. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) as well as many institutions around the world are tracking the LAGEOS orbit to study the dynamics of the solid Earth, to analyze (deduce) continental drift (plate tectonics, crustal deformations), the Earth's gravitational field, and the “wobble” in the Earth's axis of rotation." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/l/lageos display_name: laser-geodynamics-satellite-2 end_date: 2052-10-01T00:00:00 identifier: laser-geodynamics-satellite-2 name: 'Laser Geodynamics Satellite - 2' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1992-10-22T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/laser-geodynamics-satellite-2 url: http://www.asi.it - description: 'LARES is a low-cost Italian geodynamic satellite mission (managed by ASI) with a short development time that will enable achieving important scientific goals in gravitational physics, fundamental physics and Earth sciences fields. The program is a collaboration between ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Università di Roma, and Università di Lecce.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/l/lares display_name: laser-relativity-satellite end_date: 2052-02-01T00:00:00 identifier: laser-relativity-satellite name: LAser RElativity Satellite platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2012-02-13T00:00:00 type: platform uri: /platform/laser-relativity-satellite url: http://www.asi.it