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Designator id: 2009-049F

Description of SUMBANDILA Satellite:

Sumbandila or SumbandilaSat, a South African remote sensing satellite, was launched as a secondary payload on a Soyuz 2-1b rocket from Baikonur on 17 September 2009 at 15:55 UT. Data from the 81 kg satellite will be used for agriculture monitoring, infrastructure mapping, disaster response, population measurement, and water management. The primary instrument on board is a multispectral imager with a resolution of 6.25 m.

Technical data:
Launch Date: 2009-09-17
Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-2.1b
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan

Funding Agencies:
Unknown (Russia)

Disciplines:
Earth Science

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):

1 35870U 09049F   12339.11317495  .00003210  00000-0  13000-3 0  5713
2 35870 097.2135 008.8568 0001014 346.7681 098.6533 15.25368574178509

Last TLE update on :2012-12-04

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