SKYMED 1

Track SKYMED 1 now!
10-day predictions
SKYMED 1 is classified as:

Geodetic
Military

NORAD ID: 31598

Int'l Code: 2007-023A

Perigee: 586.6 km

Apogee: 588.1 km

Inclination: 97.9 °

Period: 96.3 minutes

Semi major axis: 6958 km

RCS: 5.7416 m² (large)

Launch date: June 8, 2007
Source: Italy (IT)
Launch site: AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE (AFWTR)

COSMO-SKYMED 1, which carries a radar imager, will be part of a constellation of four orbiting probes that will collect data on floods, droughts, earthquakes and landslides. It is the first to be launched, and a second was expected to lift off from Vandenberg later this year (2007). Italian space officials expect the fully functional system to beam back up to 1,800 images of the Earth a day.

1 31598U 07023A   25341.97152426  .00004917  00000-0  44685-3 0  9990
2 31598  97.8834 167.3400 0001072  80.0402 280.0940 14.95709827  1198

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC