EgyptSat 1 [Yuzhnoye]
Official name EGYPTSAT 1
Alternative name Egyptsat 1 (MisrSat 1)
Cospar ID 2007-012A
Norad ID 31117
Launch date 2007-04-17
Launch site TTMTR
Launch vehicle Dnepr
Country/Organization Egypt
Type application Earth Observation, Technology
Operator National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
RCS size MEDIUM
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 97.57
Inclination (deg) 97.96
Perigee (km) 638
Apogee (km) 647
Eccentricity 0.00700389105058366
Mean motion (revs. per day) 14.7586348262786
Semi-Major axis (km) 7020.635
Raan (deg) 73.4092
Arg of perigee (deg) 84.6181
Shape Box + 4 Pan + 1 Ant
Mass (kg) 100
Height (m) 0.5
Width (m) 0.5
Depth (m) 0.5
Span (m^2) 2
Lifetime 5 years (planned); 3.5 years (achieved)
Contractors KB Yuzhnoye
Equipment infra-red imager, high resolution multispectral imager, store and forward communications payload
Configuration MS-1TK platform
Power 4 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries

EgyptSat 1 (MisrSat 1) was Egypt's first Earth remote-sounding satellite. The satellite was jointly built by Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences together with the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Ukraine.

The satellite was based on Yuzhnoye's MS-1TK platform and featured an infra-red imager, an high resolution multispectral imager and a store and forward communications payload. The ground resolution wa 7.8 m in panchromatic and multispectral modes with a swath width of 46.6 km. For the infra-red camera, the resolution was 39.5 m with an swath width of 55.5 km.

EgyptSat 1 was successfully launched on board a Dnepr rocket as part of a multi-satellite payload on 17 April 2007 from Baikonur.

Contact with the satellite has been lost on 19 July 2010 due to loss of S-band (Control Signal) communication. A total of 5000 scenes were imaged by the EgyptSat 1 from 2008 to 2010.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
EGYPTSAT 1 2007-012A 2007-04-17 TTMTR Dnepr with Saudisat 3, SaudiComsat 3, SaudiComsat 4, SaudiComsat 5, SaudiComsat 6, SaudiComsat 7, CP 3, CP 4, CAPE 1, Libertad 1, AeroCube 2, CSTB 1, MAST