Spanish disaster monitoring on track

Thursday, March 6. 2008

DEIMOS
The Spanish Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) programme was started in August 2006 to provide an enhanced micro-satellite carrying a multi-spectral Earth observation payload under contract from the Spanish company, Deimos Imaging SL for use in commercial and environmental imaging applications. The project also includes a groundstation and data processing applications to be sited in northern Spain.

The design, manufacturing and integration of the spacecraft has been completed and is now into the environmental test phase, thermal vacuum and vibration testing has been successfully completed and SSTL are analysing the results.

The Groundstation and 5.5m Antenna have been integrated in the UK and are in the process of being packed and transported, for installation and commissioning in Spain.

The next major milestone is the Flight Readiness Review in July 2008, to be followed by a launch campaign preparing the spacecraft for a launch in Q4, 2008


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