Payload
UK-DMC 2
OperationalPayloadLEO
UK-DMC 2 is a UK/DMC International Imaging (DMCII) payload satellite, launched on July 29, 2009 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 29, 2009 at 06:46 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Dnepr 1 →
- Operator
- ISC Kosmotras
- Mission
- DubaiSat 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 643 km
- Periapsis
- 641 km
- Inclination
- 97.88°
- Orbital period
- 97.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- UK/DMC International Imaging (DMCII)
- Manufacturer
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 97 kg
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Optical Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-041C
- NORAD catalog №
- 35683
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 0.414 m²
- Status
- Operational