BIROS

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BIROS is classified as:

• Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 41604
Int'l Code: 2016-040F
Perigee: 459.0 km
Apogee: 468.6 km
Inclination: 97.1 °
Period: 93.7 minutes
Semi major axis: 6834 km
RCS: Unknown
Launch date: June 22, 2016
Source: Germany (GER)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)



The BIROS satellite developed by DLR, the German Aerospace Center, is equipped with an infrared detector to find forest fires. About the size of a refrigerator, BIROS will fly in formation with Germany's TET 1 satellite launched in 2012 to conduct tandem fire detection experiments as part of DLR's FireBIRD mission.

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1 41604U 16040F   24107.56742138  .00022244  00000-0  62627-3 0  9996
2 41604  97.1296 137.8507 0007051 265.7738  94.2701 15.36445508434716

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC