SARah 2 & 3

Name: SARah 2 & 3
Start: 2023-12-24T13:11:00Z
Location: Vandenberg

Failure

DEC 24202313:11:00 UTC

Germany's second and third SARah synthetic aperture radar reconnaissance satellites, intended to complement SARah-1 in upgrading the SAR-Lupe surveillance system. Antennas on both satellites failed to deploy, rendering them inoperable.

LIFTOFF

DEC 24 2023

13:11:00 UTC

Failure

launched fromSLC-4EVandenberg

aboardFalcon 9 B5F9-284intoLEO

Booster

B1075.8

Landed on ground pad · LZ-4

Payloads · 2

01
SARah 2
Reconnaissance
02
SARah-3
Reconnaissance