Opsat-3000, the first optical reconnaissance of the Italian Ministry of Defence was launched last week. Satellite has launched with Vega Satellite Launcher from European Spaceport in French Guyana, and it has already set in the planned orbit.
Opsat-3000 was built with Israeli technical support under the Italy-Israel defense business agreement. The new eye of Italy equipped with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), powerful optics and electronics, is orbited as a new part of the COSMO-Skymed satellite constellation