Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is to launch two new enhanced Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites during the fourth quarter of 2008. Deimos-1, which was built for Deimos SL (Spain), and SSTL’s UK-DMC2 will be launched by a Dnepr rocket from the new Kosmotras launch site in southern Ural. Both Demios-1 and UK-DMC2 will carry an enhanced version of the DMC wide area imaging system. This system provides 600km wide swaths of the Earth in three spectral bands at a ground resolution of 22-metres.
The new spacecraft have more than 10x the capacity for information provision. The improved resolution and capacity enable the system to better meet European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security program needs, particularly in the areas of forestry and fire. UK-DMC2 has been funded and developed by SSTL to continue the success of DMC International Imaging (DMCii), which commercially exploits the data and help ensure continuity of the service provided by the constellation of DMC satellites for disaster relief and humanitarian aid. The launch contract has been signed with ISC Kosmotras, with Commercial Space Technologies (CST) acting as the interface between SSTL and the launch agency—Guildford, United Kingdom
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