Airborne, The Hague, 30 April 2014
Last Tuesday night the KazEOSat-1 satellite was successfully launched from Kourou Space Port on French Guiana on top of a Vega rocket. Airborne contributed to the building of this satellite by delivering the solar-array substrate panels as a subcontractor to Dutch Space. The KazEOSat-1 is an Earth Observation satellite that was built by Airbus Defence & Space as part of their AS250 commercial platform family. Airborne was selected to manufacture panels for four of these AS250 satellites to date.
The KazEOSat-1 high-resolution observation satellite is being built by Airbus (formerly Astrium) for the ERSSS (Earth Remote Sensing Satellite System) of the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Weighing 900 kg at launch, the KazEOSat 1 satellite was launched by Arianespace’s Vega light launcher into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 750 km. Using images acquired by the KazEOSat 1 satellite from the entire planet, the system will provide very-high-quality panchromatic and multi-spectral products for a wide range of applications, including cadastral surveys, management of natural resources, environmental monitoring and homeland surveillance.
See av video of the launch of the KazEOSat-1 satellite
Earlier this year, Airborne celebrated the successful launch of Sentinel-1A and in 2012 the launch of the first AS250 application, the SPOT-6 satellite. For these Satellites Airborne also delivered the solar-array substrate panels as a subcontractor to Dutch Space.