NIGERIASAT X

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NIGERIASAT X is classified as:

Disaster monitoring

NORAD ID: 37790

Int'l Code: 2011-044C

Perigee: 691.7 km

Apogee: 711.5 km

Inclination: 97.8 °

Period: 98.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 7072 km

RCS: 0.215 m² (medium)

Launch date: August 17, 2011
Source: Nigeria (NIG)
Launch site: Orenburg, Russia (OREN)

NigeriaSat X was built under a three-year training program between SSTL and Nigeria. More than two dozen Nigerian engineers helped construct and test the 220-pound (100-kg) Earth observation spacecraft at SSTL headquarters.

1 37790U 11044C   24169.76987807  .00000607  00000-0  13651-3 0  9992
2 37790  97.8226 182.6590 0013939 111.0549 249.2144 14.59602973683907

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC