Education
NORAD ID: 25520
Int'l Code: 1998-064B
Perigee: 506.4 km
Apogee: 513.0 km
Inclination: 28.5 °
Period: 94.7 minutes
Semi major axis: 6880 km
Launch date: October 29, 1998
Source: United States (US)
Comments: The Petite Amateur Navy Satellite (PANSAT) was a small satellite designed and built by officer students, faculty, and staff at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The main objective was to support the Space Systems and Engineering and Space Systems Operations curricula by providing a "hands-on" hardware project where exposure to the many facets of a space system development and life cycle could be experienced. PANSAT provided educational training while in orbit through a space-based laboratory for officer students at NPS. PANSAT was launched from the Shuttle into a low-Earth orbit on the STS-95 Discovery mission as part of the third International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3) experiment.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 25520U 98064B 13141.94404353 .00002939 00000-0 11958-3 0 2536
2 25520 028.4596 348.8204 0004818 132.0281 002.5621 15.21089404806966
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for PAN SAT
