UK-DMC 1 (BNSCSat 1)

UK-DMC 1 (BNSCSat 1) [SSTL]

BNSCSat (British National Space Centre Satellite) or UK-DMC 1 is the UK component of DMC. The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) is a novel international co-operation in space, led by SSTL bringing together organisations from seven countries: Algeria, China, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. The DMC Consortium is forming the first-ever microsatellite constellation bringing remarkable Earth observation capabilities both nationally to the individual satellite owners, and internationally to benefit world-wide humanitarian aid efforts.

UK-DMC hosts a high capacity 1-Gbyte solid data recorder, a micropropulsion experiment that will qualify an ultra-low cost system for future nanosatellites and a GPS reflectometry payload to look for reflections of GPS signals from the sea surface.

Nation:	U.K.
Type / Application:	Earth Observation
Operator:	British National Space Centre
Contractors:	SSTL
Equipment:	32-meter resolution imager in 3 spectral bands
Configuration:	Microsat-100
Propulsion:
Lifetime:
Mass:	100 kg
Orbit:	677 km x 694 km, 98.21°

Satellite	Date	LS		Launcher	Remarks:
UK-DMC 1 (BNSCSat 1)	27.09.2003	Pl LC-132/1		Kosmos-3M	with STSAT 1, Bilsat 1, NigeriaSat 1, Mozhayets 4, Larets, Rubin 4-DSI

Further DMC missions:

Source: SSTL Website