Realized by TUBITAK - BILTEN with technology transfer first Turkish observation satellite called BILSAT has been launched in 27th of September 2003.
Being located at 686 km altitude at lower orbit, main function of the satellite will be distant monitoring an
d communication. Mini satellite of 129 kg weight is planned to be launched in the middle of year 2003.With the help of taking photographs taken by two cameras with the abilities of 12 meters panchromatic resolution (black-white) and 26 meters multi-spectral resolution (red, green, blue and near infrared) it will be landed in the land station located in TUBITAK - BILTEN. In this way, images obtained from BILSAT will be used in the evaluations such as crop yield, environment pollution; damage resulted from natural disasters and so on. With this purpose, TUBITAK - BILTEN will be involved in several projects with both public and international firms. Moreover, a camera of nine channels and 120 meters resolution called COBAN and image tightening and data processing card called GEZGIN, which are designed and produced as function loads, will be integrated to the satellite.
COBAN -Experimental additional mission load - 120m. resolution.
Spectral ranges between 400 nm-1000 nm. with 9 channels
GEZGIN:The DSP Payload -GEZGIN ( Turkish abbreviation for Real-Time Image Processor) is a state of the art DSP board based on TMS320C6701 running at 100MHz. It has 32MB onboard data memory. It has high speed LVDS links and JPEG2000 image compression is implemented in hardware for compression of multi-spectral satellite images.
For more information :http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/bilsat/en/root/
| Weight: | 129 kg. |
| Orbital path | Circular / Sun-synchronous |
| Orbital period | 97.7 min |
| Altitude | 686 km |
| Inclination | 98° |
| Number of orbits per day | 14 |
| Revisit time | 4 days (XS) / 5 days (PAN) |
| Repeat cycle | 52 days (XS) / 116 days (PAN) |
Multiband camera (Red, Green, Blue and Near Infrared) - 27.6m. spatial resolution
| Spectral Ranges | |
| Red | 450-520 nm. |
| Green | 520-600 nm. |
| Blues | 630-690 nm. |
| NIR (Near Infrared) | 760-900 nm. |
Swath area: 57 km x 57 km
Pancromatic camera - 12.6m. spatial resolution
