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Air Force launches two satellites on SpaceX rocket
In another step towards consolidating Brazil's Strategic Space Systems Program, the Brazilian Air Force launched two new satellites today, using SpaceX's Falcon 9 two-stage rocket, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, USA.
The two new satellites, named Carcará I and Carcará II (after the bold Brazilian bird of prey), make up the Lessonia Project – 1, which aims to make a constellation of low-orbit satellites available to the Brazilian government for both civil and military use.
The images captured will be used to support the fight against drug trafficking, illegal mining, fires and deforestation - besides also being essential for cartographic updates, determination of river navigability and monitoring of natural disasters, among other capabilities.
Carcará satellites will generate high resolution images 24/7 regardless of weather conditions, as the emitted signal passes through the clouds.The launch will be monitored by the Space Operations Center in Brasília and on SpaceX's Youtube channel: