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NORAD ID: 26113

Int'l Code: 2000-017A

Perigee: 1,751.7 km

Apogee: 45,132.1 km

Inclination: 94.9 °

Period: 853.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 29812 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   23088.49163067  .00000351  00000-0  15858+0 0  9993
2 26113  94.8586 296.3568 7275454  64.6535 351.5160  1.68654236141689

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC