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NORAD ID: 26113

Int'l Code: 2000-017A

Perigee: 788.5 km

Apogee: 46,096.8 km

Inclination: 94.9 °

Period: 853.9 minutes

Semi major axis: 29813 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   21257.54581933  .00000018  00000-0 -90573-2 0  9992
2 26113  94.9292 286.0417 7598595 126.7858 328.9146  1.68647841132221

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC