TopSat was successfully launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia on 27th October 2005 on a Kosmos 3M rocket into a polar low Earth orbit.
After an initial period of commissioning, TopSat was declared operational in December 2005. To date (Dec. 2006) the TopSat camera has acquired over 1000 high resolution panchromatic and multispectral images.
