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NigeriaSat-2

NigeriaSat-2 is a Nigerian Earth-observation mission launched on 2011-08-17 for resource management, mapping, agriculture, water resources, health-hazard monitoring, and disaster mitigation.^[1] The spacecraft flies in a 693 x 728 km, 98.26 degree sun-synchronous low Earth orbit on the SSTL-300 platform.^[1] Its Earth-observation payload is associated with a 300 km swath and supports disaster-damage assessment, land-cover change, crop-type mapping, and urban-change applications.^[2]

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current status	Extended operations
operator	National Space Research and Development Agency
platform	SSTL-300 bus
launch vehicle	Dnepr
Launched	2011-08-17
orbit type	693 x 728 km, 98.26 deg sun-synchronous LEO
swath km	300
tasking supported	No
current geographic priority	African resource management, Nigerian mapping, agriculture, water resources, health hazard monitoring, and disaster mitigation

Supply chain position

built on platform SSTL-300 bus

operated by National Space Research and Development Agency

launched on Dnepr

related to Disaster damage assessment

related to Land cover change

related to Crop-type mapping

related to Urban change

Sources

[1]NigeriaSat 2, Gunter Space Pagecommunity2026-06-21
[2]NigeriaSAT-2, NASRDA space missionsagency doc2026-06-21
[3]History of space in Africa, Wikipediathird party2026-06-21

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:nigeriasat-2,
  title = {NigeriaSat-2},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/nigeriasat-2}
}