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NORAD ID: 26113

Int'l Code: 2000-017A

Perigee: 633.4 km

Apogee: 46,248.5 km

Inclination: 93.9 °

Period: 853.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 29811 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   25195.31589108 -.00000733  00000-0 -13910-1 0  9998
2 26113  93.8854 310.3110 7650486 327.8295   2.7942  1.68662219155807

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC