DubaiSat 1

DubaiSat 1 is the first Earth observation satellite of the United Arab Emirates.

Mission and payload

He was on 29 July 2009 with a Russian Dnepr at 18:46 UTC from Baikonur, along with two satellites of the global disaster monitoring system DMC, the Spanish Deimos -1 and UK- DMC brought the British 2 into space. In addition, the Spanish satellite technology NanoSat 1B and the Argentine communications satellite AprizeSat -3 and 4 (each about 12 kg) were placed into orbit as planned. The satellite will orbit at 680 km altitude on a sun-synchronous track the Earth with an orbital speed of 27,000 km / h. DubaiSat 1 was developed from the Emirates Institute for Advanced Science and Technology ( EIAST ) in collaboration with the South Korean Satrec initiative for 50 million euros (Dh 184 million ) and has a design life of five years. The satellite has an optical imaging system with a black-and- white resolution of five meters and a resolution in Multispektralbereich ( four channels, red, green, blue and NIR) of ten meters. In addition, a radiometer for the determination of ionizing radiation on board. The pictures of DubaiSat 1 to be used for urban planning, scientific research, telecommunications, transport, construction and mapping. The satellite is based on the South Korean SI -200 satellite bus, and weighs about 200 kg. It has a cylinder- shaped layout with 1.20 meters in diameter and 1.35 meters in height. The power supply is provided by three solar boom with about 330 watts and three batteries of 18 Ah. Telemetry transmitted via two S-band receiver and the transmitter (2 watts of power ), the data transfer of the images with two 5 Watt transmitter whose signals are QPSK modulated.

The launch of the successor DubaiSat 2 on 21 November 2013.