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NORAD ID: 26113

Int'l Code: 2000-017A

Perigee: 861.2 km

Apogee: 46,020.0 km

Inclination: 94.0 °

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   25345.32315937 -.00000186  00000-0 -30654-2 0  9990
2 26113  94.0298 312.7063 7574026 309.5557   4.9438  1.68664951158338

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC