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NigeriaSat-2
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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]
All fields
| current status | extended |
| operator | National Space Research and Development Agency |
| platform | sstl-300 |
| launch vehicle | dnepr |
| Launched | 2011-08-17 |
| orbit type | 693 x 728 km, 98.26 deg sun-synchronous LEO |
| swath km | 300 |
| tasking supported | false |
| current geographic priority | African resource management, Nigerian mapping, agriculture, water resources, health hazard monitoring, and disaster mitigation |
| Last updated | 2026-06-21 |
| claim status | agency-sourced |
Compositional position
- [1]NigeriaSAT-2, NASRDA space missionsagency doc2026-06-21
- [2]NigeriaSat 2, Gunter Space Pagecommunity2026-06-21
- [3]History of space in Africa, Wikipediathird party2026-06-21