PATHFINDER 1

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NORAD ID: 41787

Int'l Code: 2016-059E

Perigee: 660.9 km

Apogee: 704.8 km

Inclination: 97.8 °

Period: 98.3 minutes

Semi major axis: 7053 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: September 26, 2016
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

PATHFINDER 1 is a demonstration satellite for BlackSky Global, a Seattle-based company intending to field a fleet of 60 spacecraft to offer on-demand high-resolution images of any place on the planet. The U.S.-built Earth observing platform weighed about 97 pounds (44 kilograms), and will lay the foundation for BlackSky's commercial remote sensing business, which officials announced in June 2015. The main objective of the pathfinder is to return imagery, an achievement that would prove the basic technology behind the planned commercial Earth-observing satellite fleet. The satellite is designed for three-year lifetimes and will have an imaging resolution of about 3.3 feet (1 meter) from an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometers).

1 41787U 16059E   24139.99098357  .00002573  00000-0  48078-3 0  9994
2 41787  97.8321 163.4769 0031101 103.1302 257.3376 14.65418329408425

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC