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UK-DMC
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UK-DMC was the United Kingdom contribution to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, supporting wide-area disaster monitoring and medium-resolution land imaging after its 2003 launch.[1] The mission used a standard DMC optical payload with green, red, and near-infrared bands, 32 m ground resolution, and a 640 km swath, giving it broad scene coverage for land and emergency-response applications.[1] It flew in a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit at about 676-695 km and ended service in November 2011.[1][2] UK-DMC also carried experimental payloads for Internet-router operations in orbit and GPS reflectometry, giving the mission a communications and technology-demonstration role alongside imaging.[1][3]
All fields
| current status | ended |
| operator | Dmc International Imaging |
| platform | sstl-100 |
| launch vehicle | roscosmos-kosmos-3m |
| Launched | 2003-09-27 |
| actual end of life | 2011-11-01 |
| orbit type | Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit, about 676-695 km |
| swath km | 640 |
| tasking supported | false |
| current geographic priority | Wide-area disaster monitoring and medium-resolution land imaging |
| Last updated | 2026-06-21 |
| claim status | unclaimed |
Compositional position
- [1]SSTL UK-DMC archived mission pageoperator engineering2026-06-21
- [2]Investigating operation of the Internet in orbit: Five years of collaboration around CLEOthird party2026-06-21
- [3]UK-DMC mission summarycommunity2026-06-21