DMC3 Mission

Objectives and Applications

A constellation of 3 high resolution optical imaging satellites for land use monitoring, urban planning, crop monitoring and pollution monitoring

Mission Summary

Full Name
Disaster Monitoring Constellation-3
aka Beijing-2 Constellation, SSTL-S1-300, TripleSat
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
UKSA, 21AT, NRSCC
Launch Date
10 Jul 2015
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2025
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
97.7 minutes
Orbit Sense
Ascending
Orbit Inclination
98 deg
Orbit Altitude
649 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:30
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #s
International Designators

Mission Instruments

MSI (BJ-2) - Multispectral Imager
PAN (BJ-2) - Panchromatic Imager

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
LandAlbedo and reflectance MSI (BJ-2), PAN (BJ-2)
Multi-purpose imagery (land) MSI (BJ-2), PAN (BJ-2)

OpenSearch Datasets

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