Spirale
Spirale is a French government programme to develop an early warning system which will use infrared satellite imagery to detect the flights of ballistic missiles during their boost phase, just after launch.[1] SPIRALE is an acronym which stands for "Système Préparatoire Infra-Rouge pour l’ALErte", literally "infrared preparatory system for alert".
The demonstrator system includes two 120 kilograms (260 lb) microsatellites and an alert and monitoring ground segment. The satellites have been launched by Ariane 5 on 12 February 2009.
References
- ^ "Spirale - Keeping an eye on security". Astrium.
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Orbital launches in 20092010 →
- Omid
- NOAA-19
- Progress M-66
- Ekspress-AM44, Ekspress-MD1
- Hot Bird 10, NSS-9, Spirale-A, Spirale-B
- OCO
- Telstar 11N
- Raduga-1
- Eutelsat W2A
- USA-204
- Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2
- Compass-G2
- RISAT-2, ANUSAT
- SICRAL 1B
- Yaogan 6
- Kosmos 2450
- TerreStar-1
- Kosmos 2451, Kosmos 2452, Kosmos 2453
- RazakSAT
- STS-127 (JEM-EF, AggieSat 2, BEVO-1, Castor, Pollux)
- Kosmos 2454, Sterkh No.11L
- Progress M-67
- DubaiSat-1, Deimos-1, UK-DMC 2, Nanosat-1B, AprizeSat-3, AprizeSat-4
- Amazonas-2, COMSATBw-1
- WorldView-2
- Progress M-03M
- USA-210
- Thor 6, NSS-12
- SMOS, PROBA-2
- Progress M-MIM2 (Poisk)
- Shijian 11-01
- STS-129 (ExPRESS-1, ExPRESS-2)
- Kosmos 2455
- Intelsat 14
- Eutelsat W7
- IGS Optical 3
- Intelsat 15
- USA-211
- Yaogan 7
- Kosmos 2456, Kosmos 2457, Kosmos 2458
- Yaogan 8, Xi Wang 1
- Helios IIB
- Soyuz TMA-17
- DirecTV-12
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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