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SaudiSat-3 is a Saudi Earth-observation and data-relay satellite mission. It launched on Dnepr from Baikonur on 2007-04-17 into sun-synchronous low Earth orbit near 655-678 km and 98.09 degrees inclination.^[1]^[2] The spacecraft carries a high-resolution passive optical imager and uses a mission-specific SaudiSat-3 bus.^[1]^[3] Its imagery supports land-cover and urban-change observation.^[3]

Supply chain position

built on platform SaudiSat-3 spacecraft bus

operated by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology

launched on Dnepr

related to Land cover change

related to Urban change

Sources

[1]SaudiSat-3, Gunter Space Pagecommunity2026-06-21
[2]Dnepr launch historycommunity2026-06-21
[3]Saudi Arabia Earth Observation Systems, GlobalSecuritycommunity2026-06-21

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SaudiSat-3. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/missions/saudisat-3 (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:saudisat-3,
  title = {SaudiSat-3},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/saudisat-3}
}