Space & Earth Science
NORAD ID: 32062
Int'l Code: 2007-042A
Perigee: 746.0 km
Apogee: 792.0 km
Inclination: 98.3 °
Period: 100.1 minutes
Semi major axis: 7140 km
Launch date: September 19, 2007
Source: China/Brazil (CHBZ)
Comments: CBERS 2B carries three primary imaging cameras to take a wide range of pictures of locations scattered throughout the world.
A low-resolution camera with a 60-degree field of view will specialize in capturing images of large swaths of the planet. Another camera will be capable of taking pictures with a resolution of about 65 feet.
Unlike its forerunners, CBERS 2B includes a high-resolution black-and-white camera able to produce images showing objects as small as 2.5 meters, or about eight feet. CBERS 1 and CBERS 2 each carried an infrared scanning instrument instead.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 32062U 07042A 13139.29224105 .00000268 00000-0 10013-3 0 8913
2 32062 098.3387 209.3906 0032231 351.9893 008.0776 14.38972449297323
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for CBERS 2B
