SOCRATES

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SOCRATES is classified as:

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Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 39768

Int'l Code: 2014-029C

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   26249.56220762  .00000661  00000-0  65790-4 0  9996
2 39768  97.9140   3.6923 0007393  73.3644 286.8387 14.95032511666569

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC