POLAR

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POLAR is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 23802

Int'l Code: 1996-013A

Perigee: 6,696.2 km

Apogee: 51,543.5 km

Inclination: 79.7 °

Period: 1,109.0 minutes

Semi major axis: 35490 km

RCS: 7.451 m² (large)

Launch date: February 24, 1996
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE (AFWTR)

Operates with "Wind"; responsibility for multi-wavelength imaging of aurora, measuring entry of plasma into polar magentosphere and geomagnetic tail, flow of plasma to and from ionosphere, and deposition of particle energy in ionosphere and upper atmosphere.

1 23802U 96013A   26017.07365963  .00000290  00000-0  00000-0 0  9990
2 23802  79.6734 228.7645 6318160 214.1919  81.1346  1.29846008142894

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC