PICARD

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PICARD is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 36598

Int'l Code: 2010-028A

Perigee: 729.6 km

Apogee: 731.9 km

Inclination: 98.3 °

Period: 99.3 minutes

Semi major axis: 7101 km

RCS: 0.879 m² (medium)

Launch date: June 15, 2010
Source: France (FR)
Launch site: Orenburg, Russia (OREN)

PICARD, a French solar physics satellite was launched on a Dnepr rocket from the Dombarovsky Missile Base near Yasny, Russia at 14:42 UT on 15 June 2010. Picard is an investigation dedicated to the simultaneous measurement of the absolute total and spectral solar irradiance, the diameter and solar shape, and to studying the Sun's interior through helioseismology. Picard's 11 cm imaging telescope, called SODISM, will obtain ultra-precise measurements of the Sun's diameter, shape and rotation. Two more instruments, named SOVAP and PREMOS, will measure the total solar irradiance and energy fluctuations in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light.

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2 36598 098.3177 060.2887 0001606 093.0664 267.0716 14.50626557486121

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC