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, UKSA, UKSA, 21AT, 21AT, 21AT, NRSCC, NRSCC, 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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