CSO-2
Success
DEC 29202016:42:07 UTCSecond satellite in France's Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO) military Earth observation constellation. CSO-2 operates at a lower altitude than CSO-1 (approximately 480 km versus 800 km), optimized for high-resolution identification imagery rather than wide-area reconnaissance.
LIFTOFF
DEC 29 202016:42:07 UTC
Success
launched from ELS Kourou
aboard Soyuz ST-A / Fregat-M VS25 into SSO
Payload
CSO-2
Reconnaissance