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A rocket will launch from Kazakhstan on Wednesday to place two British-built imaging satellites in orbit.
The UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 spacecraft will join four platforms already in the sky that together form the Disaster Monitoring Constellation.
The network obtains rapid pictures of areas struck by natural calamities - such as floods, earthquakes and fire.

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The launch of the United Arab Emirates first remote sensing satellite DubaiSat-1, scheduled Saturday, has been postponed to July 29, WAM news agency reported.

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SSTLs UK-DMC2 satellite has successfully completed pre-launch tests and is integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in readiness for launch on Wednesday, 29th July 2009 at 18:46 UTC, 19:46 BST.

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SSTL announce revised launch date for UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltds latest two missions, UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1, will be launched on Wednesday, 29th July 2009 at 18:46 UTC, 19:46 BST. The satellites have completed pre-launch tests at the Baikonur Cosmodrome and have been integrated with the Dnepr space head module.

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SSTL to launch UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 Earth observation missions in July
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is preparing two satellites for launch on 25th July. The Earth observation missions, UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1, will be launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Saturday, 25th July 2009 at 18:46 UTC, 19:46 BST.
The spacecraft, which are both based on the 100kg class SSTL-100 micro satellite platform, will join the international Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), expanding the constellation to six operational satellites. The new satellites will enhance DMC satellite daily imaging capacity for applications such as deforestation mapping, urban planning, natural resource management, security, agriculture and disaster relief operations.

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In a unique offer to the British Interplanetary Society  members, and in aid of the British Interplanetary Society Appeal, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited are offering to launch a small chip carrying the names of British Interplanetary Society members onboard their UK-DMC-2 satellite.

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Ed ~ This is not free. The total cost will be £133 (£43 for BIS membership and £90 for your name to be placed onto the satellite).

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Dnepr rocket with six satellites to take off from Baikonur in spring
The next Dnepr converted launch vehicle carrying six foreign satellites is scheduled to blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan next spring.
The rocket will put the DubaiSat satellite belonging to the United Arab Emirates, Spain's Deimos and NanoSat-1B satellites, Britain's UK DMC-2 satellite, and Argentina's AprizeSat-3 and AprizeSat-4 satellites into orbit.

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Surrey team launches fridge-sized modules and helps keep Britain in the space race
Some time this month an intercontinental ballistic missile will blast off from its silo from beneath the ground in deepest Kazakhstan. It will not, however, be carrying the nuclear warhead it was designed to deliver. Instead the payload will include five small satellites designed and built amid the neatly clipped lawns and ornamental lakes of the University of Surrey, almost within the shadow of Guildford cathedral.
The satellites are each the size of a normal fridge. Once they break away from the ex-Soviet rocket the five will form a constellation but their purpose is far from astrophysical. When they swing into action they will beam back pictures of the Earth - capable of collecting, among other things, evidence of agricultural fraud, illegal oil dumping, the impact of natural disasters and likely deposits of minerals.

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Second generation DMC satellites set sights on GMES
SSTLs privately funded UK-DMC-2 has today passed its Test Readiness Review (TRR) at its Manufacturing Integration and Test Facilities in Guildford, UK. Scheduled for build completion in September 2008, the new Earth Observation satellite will provide higher performance imaging capabilities to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation which is operated by SSTLs subsidiary DMCii.
UK-DMC-2 will carry an enhanced version of the DMC (Disaster Monitoring Constellation) camera which will provide 600km wide multi-spectral images of the Earth at a ground resolution of 22-metres. This is an advance on the current 32-metre DMC imager, which has been successfully providing imagery in support of deforestation, disaster relief and agricultural monitoring for over five years in the current constellation of five spacecraft.

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The  Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), a Dubai government organisation has announced that they  plan to launch the  DubaiSat-1 spacecraft in 2008.
The satellite is intended to increase development in  science and technology  in the  United Arab Emirates.

"As the UAE continues to develop on all accounts, there is a definite need for an accurate multipurpose information system.  DubaiSat-1 will support the infrastructural development by providing information that is central for the decision making process affecting the urban and rural planning as well as transport, utilities and mapping in addition to environmental applications such as monitoring pollution and detecting oil spills" - Ahmed Obaid Al Mansoori, director general of EIAST

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