Deimos-1

Launch data: Designation  35681 / 09041A Launch date  29 Jul 2009 - 18:46 UT Launch site  B, LC-109/95 Launch vehicle  Dnepr-1 Mission  Government: Earth Observation Sun-Synchronous LEO orbit on: Perigee / Apogee  639 x 672 km Eccentricity  2.35E-03 Inclination  98.13 deg Period  97.83 min

Spacecraft data:

Mission details:

• The Deimos 1 satellite will gather wide-angle, medium-resolution images with optical payloads able to see objects about 72 feet [22 m] across. The spacecraft join four existing disaster monitoring satellites with less-capable imaging equipment. Those payloads are owned by agencies in the U.K., Nigeria, Algeria and China. Deimos 1 increase the fleet's total imaging capacity twenty-fold, according to DMC International Imaging Ltd., the firm that markets the constellation's products. Officials use the constellation's images for mapping, urban planning, resource management, security and disaster relief purposes. The 200-pound [91-kg] Deimos 1 spacecraft will be handed over to Deimos Space, a Spanish company that will operate the satellite during its mission.
• part of International Disaster Monitoring Constellation.

Mission details:

• Kosmotras launched a Yuzhoye-built Dnepr rocket on Jul 29, 2009 carrying a cluster of small satellites. The payloads are Dubaisat 1 (190 kg Korean SatRec bus) for the Emirates Institute of Advanced Science and Technology in Dubai; Deimos-1 (90 kg Surrey SSTL-100 bus) for Deimos Space SL of Madrid; UK DMC-2 (95 kg Surrey SSTL-100 bus) for DMC International Imaging of Guildford, Surrey; Nanosat-1b, a 22 kg payload for the Spanish space agency INTA; and AprizeSat-3 and AprizeSat-4, for SpaceQuest of Fairfax, Virginia.
• SpaceQuest also owns and operates AprizeSat-1 and 2 (formerly known as Latinsat C/D). Aprize Satellite, also of Fairfax, is the owner of the similar SpaceQuest-built Latinsat-A and -B satellites which operate the Argentine-registerd Latinsat communications network.

External links:

• EOportal.org Satellite description