Kondor E

Also called Kondor E2

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General

Designation	40353 / 14084A
Launch date	19 Dec 2014
Country of origin	South Africa
Mission	Military: radar remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	500 km, circular
Inclination	74.7°
Period	94.6 min
Launch vehicle	Strela #3

Owned by the South African Ministry of Defence. Known as project Flute, estimated cost R1.4 billion. Ground station location unknown.

The first satellite in the series was Cosmos 2487

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End of life

Decay

22 Oct 2022

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Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	NPO Mash
Platform	Kondor
Mass at launch	1150 kg
Dry mass
Dimension
Solar array	2 deployable arrays
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime	5 years

X-band downlink

S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Resolutions:
1 to 2 m in spotlight mode
1 to 3 m in stripmap mode
5 to 30 m in ScanSAR mode
1200 km swath width

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