AGILE

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AGILE is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 31135

Int'l Code: 2007-013A

Perigee: 464.6 km

Apogee: 479.9 km

Inclination: 2.5 °

Period: 93.9 minutes

Semi major axis: 6843 km

RCS: 1.5849 m² (large)

Launch date: April 23, 2007
Source: Italy (IT)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

AGILE is an Italian gamma ray observatory launched aboard an Indian rocket today, beginning a three-year mission to survey the sky in a search for faraway sources of the Universe's most energetic form of light. The AGILE satellite flew into orbit on top of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. Liftoff was at 1000 GMT (6:00 a.m. EDT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota on India's eastern coast.

1 31135U 07013A   21166.04834201  .00002599  00000-0  42744-4 0  9992
2 31135   2.4668 236.5996 0011189  87.4866 272.6469 15.33601637420399

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC