SOCRATES

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SOCRATES is classified as:

NORAD ID: 39768

Int'l Code: 2014-029C

Perigee: 601.8 km

Apogee: 609.6 km

Inclination: 97.9 °

Period: 96.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 6976 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: May 24, 2014
Source: Japan (JPN)
Launch site: TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER (TNSTA)

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SOCRATES (Space Optical Communications Research Advanced Technology Satellite) is a microsatellite developed by NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. The mission is to demonstrate and validate the operation of SOTA (Small Optical Transponder), a laser communication system in space for microsatellites and eventually in nanosatellites.

1 39768U 14029C   24258.03003007  .00010475  00000-0  10960-2 0  9998
2 39768  97.8780 359.0141 0005581 309.5665  50.5059 14.89805375558754

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC