BILSAT-1

Turkey

Spacecraft n°:

Turkey spacecraft n°: 5

Also called Biltensat or Utbitak 1 or DMC-Turkey

Launch data:

Designation	27943 / 03042E
Launch date	27 Sep 2003 - 06:11:44 UT
Launch site	Plesetsk, LC-132/1
Launch vehicle	Cosmos-3M (11K65M - S/N: 103)
Mission	Remote sensing
Earth orbit:
Perigee/Apogee	686 km; sun-synchronous
Inclination	98.2°
Period	98.5 min (4 day revisit)

Part of an international collaboration to launch the first constellation of Earth observation satellites specifically designed for disaster monitoring.
Launched for TUBITAK-ODTU-BILTEN, the Information Technology and Electronics Research Institute of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.

Specifications

Prime contractor	SSTL
Platform	Microsat-100
Mass at launch	130 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension	0.6 x 0.6 x 0.6 m
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power
Design lifetime	15 years

This system uses two SSTL star imagers, supplemented by MEMS gyroscopes. For rapid slewing, BILSAT carries a control-moment-gyro -- the first to be flown on a microsatellite.

Multispectral:

Wavebands	near-IR red green
Swath width	600 km
Resolution	26 m

Panchromatic:

Wavebands
Swath width
Resolution	12 m

Coban

Wavebands	9-band
Swath width
Resolution

The Coban and Gezgin payload were built by Bilten. Coban is a 9-band low resolution multispectral imager. Gezgin is an image processing module (uses jpeg2000).

Ref.: #3(SD375,377), #7, #15 - update: 04.03.10

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