USA 247 (NROL-39)

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USA 247 (NROL-39) is classified as:

Military

NORAD ID: 39462

Int'l Code: 2013-072A

Perigee: 1,108.1 km

Apogee: 1,114.0 km

Inclination: 123.0 °

Period: 107.3 minutes

Semi major axis: 7482 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: December 6, 2013
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE (AFWTR)

USA 247 is owned by the National Reconnaissance Office, but government officials do not disclose the identities of the NRO's spacecraft, only saying the payload will serve national security purposes. Independent satellite-watchers believe the spacecraft will join the NRO's fleet of spacecraft with radars to penetrate cloaks of clouds and darkness and reveal what adversaries are doing regardless of weather or time of day.

1 39462U 13072A   24247.06076525 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    00
2 39462 123.0000 161.6185 0003930  54.6253 305.3746 13.41440538    01

Source of the keplerian elements: McCants