Friday, March 4, 2011

UK-DMC

 2003-042D


UK-DMC-1, for British National Space Center.

UK contribution to Disaster Monitoring Constellation, SSTL microsat. part of BNSC Mosaic.

Mass 100 kg. The satellite demonstrated new attitude control methods, with the gravity boom not deployed.


DMC 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2003 Sep 27  0611:44 Launch by Kosmos-3M  PL 
 0614  Stage 2 burn 
 0619? S3M MECO-1 
 0645?  S3M MES-2 
 0645?  S3M MECO-2 
 0646:28 STSat-1 sep 
  DMC BNC sep 
2003 Sep 30    98.47 676 x 693 x 97.9 
2010 Sep 10    98.42 675 x 691 x 97.9 

Payload:

  • DMC 12m pan imager

  • 1Gbyte solid state recorder

  • Micropropulsion experiment

  • GPS reflectometry experiment (GPS signals reflected from ocean)

  • Gravity boom

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