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KazSTSAT

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KazSTSAT is a 105 kg Kazakhstan smallsat for Earth observation and technology demonstration, launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg on 2018-12-03 into a 575 km sun-synchronous orbit ^[1]^[2]. Its payload set includes an 18.7 m ground-sampling EO imager with 275 km swath, a beyond-diffraction-limit imager, a sun sensor, and an OBCARM demonstration unit ^[1]. The mission also demonstrated a virtualized S/X-band ground segment using software-defined back-ends at KSAT Svalbard and an Astana demonstration station ^[1].

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Compositional position

this ——— kazstsat-eo-imager payload

this ——— kazstsat-beyond-diffraction-limit-imager payload

this ——— KazSTSAT spacecraft platform bus

this ——— Land cover change related-topic

this ——— Crop-type mapping related-topic

Sources

[1]KazSTSAT: Launched 2018, SSTLoperator engineering2026-06-21
[2]List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches, 2018 SSO-A entrycommunity2026-06-21Used as lower-tier cross-check for the SSO-A Falcon 9 launch context.

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