POLAR

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POLAR is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 23802

Int'l Code: 1996-013A

Perigee: 8,437.3 km

Apogee: 49,801.9 km

Inclination: 78.8 °

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   22135.67822865  .00000211  00000-0  00000+0 0  9994
2 23802  78.7582 241.9427 5827538 259.9871  33.1906  1.29847076125444

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC