KANOPUS-V 1

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KANOPUS-V 1 is classified as:

Earth resources

NORAD ID: 38707

Int'l Code: 2012-039A

Perigee: 514.7 km

Apogee: 517.2 km

Inclination: 97.5 °

Period: 94.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 6886 km

RCS: 1.9439 m² (large)

Launch date: July 22, 2012
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

The Canopus-B satellite, developed by the All-Russia Research Institute of Electromechanics (NPP VNIIEM), is designed for remote sensing of the Earth. It weighs about 400 kilograms and it is to work on a circular orbit at a height of 510 km.

1 38707U 12039A   19230.89312271 +.00000177 +00000-0 +11682-4 0  9995
2 38707 097.4540 148.6952 0001808 090.9507 329.8160 15.19017738392429

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC