BILSAT-1
Mission type | Earth observation |
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Operator | TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY) |
COSPAR ID | 2003-042E |
SATCAT no. | 27943 |
Mission duration | 3 years |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | DMC International Imaging |
Launch mass | 130 kilograms (290 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | September 27, 2003, 06:12 | UTC
Rocket | 132/1 |
End of mission | |
Deactivated | August 2006[1] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Sun-synchronous |
Eccentricity | 0.001[2] |
Perigee altitude | 675 kilometres (419 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 694 kilometres (431 mi) |
Inclination | 98.2 degrees |
Period | 98.5 minutes |
Epoch | 27 September 2003, 02:12:00 UTC[3] |
BILSAT-1 (formerly just BILSAT) was an
Launch
BILSAT-1 was launched from
Mission
One of the four spacecraft of the DMC project, which is an organization for international space program cooperation formed by seven countries, namely United Kingdom, Algeria, China, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam and Turkey, BILSAT-1 was dedicated to studies on agriculture, forestry, hydrology, land cover/use and mapping, environment as well as urban area development.[5][6][7][8] It was built at a cost of $14 million.[9]
The first images were from
BILSAT-1 ended its mission in August 2006 due to battery cells failure.[6][11]
Payloads
Turkey's first indigenously developed scientific
BILSAT-1 hosted a real time image compression module named GEZGIN, an abbreviation for "GErçek Zamanda Görüntü İşleyeN", which is a
References
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