DMC satellite constellation

The DMC is a unique earth observation (EO) satellite constellation that delivers high frequency imaging anywhere on the globe from a long established and growing collection of satellites. The constellation is coordinated by DMC to deliver high quality commercial earth imaging services. Alsat-1 (Algeria), launched in 2002, has become the first satellite of the constellation.

Sample image from Deimos-1 satellite ©Deimos Imaging S.L.U., September 5, 2012

Indonesia. A sample image from Deimos-1 satellite ©Deimos Imaging S.L.U., January 21, 2011

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At present, 6 satellites belonging to Algeria, UK, Spain, China and Nigeria are operating in orbit. All satellites are in solar-synchronous orbit to provide daily global coverage with surveys. The Bejing-1 satellite (China), launched in 2005, has a spatial resolution of 32 m and a survey width of 600 km. Second-generation UK-DMC-2 (UK), Deimos-1 (Spain), Nigeriasat-X (Nigeria) satellites were launched in 2009–2011, their spatial resolution improved to 22 m. These include the last of the launched satellites. Alsat-1B. Satellite Nigeriasat-2 (Nigeria) belongs to the third generation of DMC satellites.

Satellites that compile the DMC constellation

Satellite	Country	Launch year	Mass, kg	Spatial resolution, m	Swath width, km
Alsat-1B	Algeria	2016	103	PAN: 12 MS: 32	600
Beijing-1	China	2005	166	PAN: 4 MS: 32	600
Deimos-1	Spain/Canada (Canadian company UrtheCast bought the satellite in June 2015)	2009	90	PAN: - MS: 22	660
Nigeriasat-2	Nigeria	2011	300	PAN: 2,5 MS: 5,32	20, 320
Nigeriasat-X	Nigeria	2011	100	PAN: - MS: 22	600
UK-DMC-2	United Kingdom	2009	120	PAN: - MS: 22	660

Satellites, decommissioned from the DMC constellation

Satellite	Country	Launch year	Mass, kg	Spatial resolution, m	Swath width, km
Alsat-1	Algeria	2002	90	PAN: - MS: 32	600
Bilsat-1	Turkey	2003	130	PAN: 12 MS: 26	24, 52
Nigeriasat-1	Nigeria	2003	100	PAN: - MS: 32	600
UK-DMC	United Kingdom	2003	100	PAN: - MS: 32	600

Benefits:

Countries, regions, continents rapidly covered
Cost effective monitoring tool
Timely image collection within short acquisition windows
Ideal for wide-area change detection, disaster monitoring, land cover mapping, environmental monitoring, forestry and agriculture
Rapid delivery of the data

Applications:

The DMC group provides observation of disaster areas in the framework of the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters”;
Satellites are shooting in the interests of their states to solve problems of agriculture, forestry, etc.

For cost calculation of the DMC imagery for your area of interest, send technical description of your proposal to: innoter@innoter.com. For consultations contact by the phone: +7 495 245-04-24

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