Alsat 1

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General

Designation	27559 / 02054A
Launch date	28 Nov 2002
Country of origin	Algeria
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	686 km; sun-synchronous; 0° slot in the DMC system
Inclination	98.2°
Period	98.5 min (4 day revisit)
Launch vehicle	Cosmos C

Built with and for the Algerian Centre National des Techniques Spatiales (CNTS). It will monitor desert and water resources.

Alsat 1 is part of an international collaboration to launch the first constellation of Earth observation satellites specifically designed for disaster monitoring.

sat-index articles

n2yo.com tracking

Technical data

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Specifications
Payload

First satellite to use IP as the primary communication protocol
Download: 2245 MHz

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