Sich 2 & Others

The Sich 2 is a small Earth remote sensing satellite based on Yuzhnoye's MS-2-8 micro satellite plattform. It is built under the National Space Program. Sich 2 stopped communicating with ground control on 12 December 2012 due to a battery failure.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) signed in November 2006 a contract in Abuja for the supply of the NIGERIASAT-2 Earth observation satellite, related ground infrastructure and a training programme to further establish a national indigenous space capability in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The selection of SSTL by the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) of Nigeria follows a detailed technical evaluation and due diligence undertaken by NASRDA's procurement advisor, Telesat of Canada, confirming the UK company's position as the world-leading supplier of advanced operational small satellites.

NigeriaSat X (or NX) is an small satellite to advance the Nigerian space capability, which started with NigeriaSat 1. The training satellite NX is being developed by a team of 25 Nigerian trainee engineers at SSTL under a program to provide hands-on experience in all aspects of spacecraft development. The NX satellite is based on the SSTL-100 platform and features a 22 meter multispectral imaging system with an 600 km swath.

EduSAT is a programme that includes the project, the realization and the launch of a microsatellite with one or more didactic payload on board. EDUSAT is an orbiting testing system for technological qualification, open to research centers and industry. In addition, the project includes the verification of dynamics principles, measurements of the Earth magnetic field, detection of cosmic particles, measurements of the Solar constant. Technological goals include the study of deorbiting systems, behaviour of solar cells in orbit, validation of an S-band transponder.

LatinSat, later renamed AprizeSat, is a constellation of small Low-Earth-Orbit satellites (64 satellites planned) to achieve a global communication system of data transmission and fixed and mobile asset tracking and monitoring (GMPCS). The satellites also carry experimental payloads. AprizeSat 3 to 10 also feature an AIS (Automatic Identification System) receiver to gather position data from ships.

RASAT is a turkish imaging microsatellite owned by TÜBITAK-UZAY (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - Space Technologies Research Institute). RASAT is the first remote sensing satellite that is being developed and manufactured in Turkey by Turkish engineers. The predecessor mission was BILSAT 1, which was launched in 2003 and was operational until August 2006 when it battery failed. The main purpose of the RASAT program is to further improve the experience and skills acquired by the BILSAT program, as well as to further improve the infrastructure required to assemble, integrate and test small satellites in Turkey without receiving any foreign resources in terms of advisors or partners. The RASAT project started in 2004 with requirements calling for an optical imager with a resolution of 7.5 m in the panchromatic band and 15 m in the multispectral bands.