It was launched into orbit in April 1999 on board a Dnepr rocket from Yasny Russia.

[1] UoSAT-12 was an experimental mission used to demonstrate and test a number of new technologies.

Imaging cameras and a high-speed 1 Mbit/s S-band downlink (the MERLION experiment) were tested.

[2][3] These now-proven technologies were later adopted by SSTL in the design of its Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellites.

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