"constellation-of-small-satellites-for-mediterranean-basin-observation-2" . "COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 2"^^ . "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."^^ . "https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cosmo-skymed" . "spacecraft" . "2007-12-09T00:00:00"^^ . "2015-12-01T00:00:00"^^ . . . _:genid1 . _:genid1 . _:genid1 . _:genid1 . _:genid2 . _:genid2 . _:genid2 . _:genid2 . "526" . "http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=526" . . "COSMO-SkyMed 2" . "http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#C" . .