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AlSat-1

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AlSat-1 was Algeria's first satellite and an early Disaster Monitoring Constellation precursor, operated for national wide-area Earth observation and disaster monitoring use cases.^[1] The mission used an SSTL-100 microsatellite bus carrying the Slim 6 Line Imager, with a 600 km swath, 32 m ground sampling, and three spectral bands for medium-resolution optical coverage.^[1]^[2] It launched on 2002-11-28 and operated in sun-synchronous low Earth orbit at about 700 km before the mission ended in August 2010.^[2]

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current status	ended
operator	Agence Spatiale Algerienne
platform	sstl-100
launch vehicle	roscosmos-kosmos-3m
Launched	2002-11-28
actual end of life	2010-08-15
orbit type	Sun-synchronous LEO, approximately 700 km
swath km	600
tasking supported	false
current geographic priority	Algeria and Disaster Monitoring Constellation disaster-response coverage
Last updated	2026-06-21
claim status	agency-sourced

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Compositional position

this ——— slim-6-line-imager payload

this ——— Disaster damage assessment related-topic

this ——— Land cover change related-topic

Sources

[1]ALSAT-1: Launched 2002, SSTL space portfoliooperator datasheet2026-06-21
[2]AlSat-1 satellite record, Gunter's Space Pagecommunity2026-06-21

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