35870 - SUMBANDILA

SUMBANDILA or SUMBANDILASAT, a South African remote-sensing satellite, was launched as a secondary payload on a Soyuz 2-1b rocket from Baikonur on 2009 September 17 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.

Alternate Names

SumbandilaSat

Facts in Brief

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