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NORAD ID: 26113

Int'l Code: 2000-017A

Perigee: 1,249.6 km

Apogee: 45,631.4 km

Inclination: 94.2 °

Period: 853.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 29811 km

RCS: 2.9907 m² (large)

Launch date: March 25, 2000
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE (AFWTR)

Use neutral atom, ultraviolet and radio imaging; identify magnetospare on substorm and magnetic storm time scales; determine respone of magetosphere to solar wind changes; discover how/where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and lost during substorms and magnetic storms.

1 26113U 00017A   26152.26636047 -.00000099  00000-0 -18882-1 0  9999
2 26113  94.2162 315.1599 7443737 289.6105   8.6041  1.68666062161231

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC