The DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) environment and resource monitoring system was launched to the ISS in July 2018. The hyperspectral sensor system has 235 spectral channels with a spatial resolution of 30 metres. DLR and the US company Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) cooperated on the development of the instrument, CBK PAN, as the subcontractor of DLR, was responsible of delivery of the Pointing Unit for the instrument.