UK-DMC

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UK-DMC is classified as:

Disaster monitoring

NORAD ID: 27942

Int'l Code: 2003-042D

Perigee: 588.0 km

Apogee: 668.2 km

Inclination: 98.0 °

Period: 97.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 6999 km

RCS: 0.319 m² (medium)

Launch date: September 27, 2003
Source: United Kingdom (UK)
Launch site: PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (PKMTR)

BNSCSAT (British National Science Center SATellite, also known as UK-DMC) is a British DMC (multinational Disaster Monitoring Constellation) satellite that was launched by a Kosmos 3M rocket from Plesetsk at 06:12 UT on 27 September 2003. Besides disaster monitoring, it will help in urban planning and agriculture surveys.

1 27942U 03042D   24116.45562195  .00004294  00000-0  52487-3 0  9992
2 27942  98.0462 284.3578 0057272 232.5759 127.0234 14.82642624106586

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC