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NigeriaSat-1

NigeriaSat-1 was a Nigerian Earth-observation mission launched on 2003-09-27 for disaster response and land-cover applications.^[1] The spacecraft flew in a 675 x 694 km, 98.21 degree sun-synchronous low Earth orbit on the SSTL-100 platform.^[2] Its SLIM-6 line imager provided a 600 km swath with a three-day revisit cadence, supporting Disaster Monitoring Constellation response and land-cover-change work.^[1] The mission ended on 2012-10-29.^[2]

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current status	Ended
operator	National Space Research and Development Agency
platform	SSTL-100 bus
launch vehicle	Roscosmos Kosmos 3m
Launched	2003-09-27
actual end of life	2012-10-29
orbit type	675 x 694 km, 98.21 deg sun-synchronous LEO
swath km	600
revisit days	3
tasking supported	No
current geographic priority	Nigeria and international Disaster Monitoring Constellation disaster response

Supply chain position

built on platform SSTL-100 bus

operated by National Space Research and Development Agency

launched on Roscosmos Kosmos 3m

related to Disaster damage assessment

related to Land cover change

Sources

[1]NigeriaSAT-1, NASRDA space missionsagency doc2026-06-21
[2]NigeriaSat 1, Gunter Space Pagecommunity2026-06-21

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:nigeriasat-1,
  title = {NigeriaSat-1},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/nigeriasat-1}
}