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DubaiSat-1
Sign in to saveDubaiSat-1 () is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite built by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) under an agreement with Satrec Initiative, a satellite manufacturing company in South Korea.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Earth observation satellite
- Operator
- Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre
- Image
- DubaiSat-1.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Dnepr
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2009-07-29
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 109
- native label
- DubaiSat-1
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Structure
- Ground Station Components
- Antenna and RF Subsystem
- Mission Control Station
- Image Receiving and Processing Station
- Applications
- Infrastructure development
- Environmental
- Disaster relief
- Gallery
- References
DubaiSat-1 () is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite built by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) under an agreement with Satrec Initiative, a satellite manufacturing company in South Korea.
DubaiSat-1 was launched on 29 July 2009 into a 680 km altitude Sun-synchronous polar orbit from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, along with several other satellites on board the Dnepr launch vehicle.
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