Bilsat 1

Also called Biltensat or Utbitak 1 or DMC-Turkey

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General

Designation	27945 / 03042G
Launch date	27 Sep 2003
Country of origin	Turkey
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	686 km; sun-synchronous; 90° slot in the DMC system
Inclination	98.2°
Period	98.5 min (4 day revisit)
Launch vehicle	Cosmos C

Part of an international collaboration to launch the first constellation of Earth observation satellites specifically designed for disaster monitoring.

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External resources

sat-index articles

http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	SSTL
Platform	Microsat-100
Mass at launch	130 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension	0.6 x 0.6 x 0.6 m
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power
Design lifetime	15 years

This system uses two SSTL star imagers, supplemented by MEMS gyroscopes. For rapid slewing, BILSAT carries a control-moment-gyro -- the first to be flown on a microsatellite.
Download: 2243.33 MHz

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Multispectral

Wavebands	near-IR red green
Swath width	600 km
Resolution	26 m

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Panchromatic

Wavebands
Swath width
Resolution	12 m

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Coban

Wavebands	9-band
Swath width
Resolution

The Coban and Gezgin payload were built by Bilten. Coban is a 9-band low resolution multispectral imager. Gezgin is an image processing module (uses jpeg2000).

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