Satlantis sent its fifth Earth observation satellite into space
The launch took place from the Vandenberg Space Center in California, USA, at 13:07 GMT in the Basque Country.
The Satlantis company in Leioa (Bizkaia) today successfully launched into orbit the satellite called Garai B-Innosat Unamuno , which, through high-resolution images, aims to observe the Earth and position itself internationally at the top.
Vandenberg's ( Kalifornia, USA) was launched from the Space Space Center this Tuesday at 13:07 p.m. in the Basque Country. Lau has two high-resolution cameras — iSIM-90 and iSIM-170 — that make up the optical channels Lau.
It's the fifth micro satellite that the Biscayan company sends into space, weighing about 105 kilos, and they've used SpaceX's Transporter-16 for shipping. OHB has been developed in collaboration with the Swedish company Sweden.
The head of Satlantis, Juan Tomás Hernani, has explained that this mission comes to meet the "new demands of Earth observation customers." He has ensured that with the Garai B satellite they will make a "qualitative leap" because in a single minute it will have "400 kilometers of observation capacity."
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