AGILE

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AGILE is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 31135

Int'l Code: 2007-013A

Perigee: 461.4 km

Apogee: 477.2 km

Inclination: 2.5 °

Period: 93.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 6840 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   21335.64627717  .00005532  00000-0  12513-3 0  9998
2 31135   2.4688 347.2545 0011523 225.5635 134.3476 15.34577554446483

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC