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NORAD ID: 26113

Int'l Code: 2000-017A

Perigee: 1,105.5 km

Apogee: 45,779.1 km

Inclination: 94.3 °

Period: 853.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 29813 km

RCS: 2.9907 m² (large)

Launch date: March 25, 2000
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE (AFWTR)

Use neutral atom, ultraviolet and radio imaging; identify magnetospare on substorm and magnetic storm time scales; determine respone of magetosphere to solar wind changes; discover how/where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and lost during substorms and magnetic storms.

1 26113U 00017A   24131.43234475  .00000271  00000-0  43299-1 0  9992
2 26113  94.3223 302.8726 7492232  20.1053 357.9489  1.68650504148559

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC