SOCRATES

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SOCRATES is classified as:

NORAD ID: 39768

Int'l Code: 2014-029C

Perigee: 615.0 km

Apogee: 623.5 km

Inclination: 97.9 °

Period: 96.9 minutes

Semi major axis: 6990 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   22330.75652845  .00000961  00000-0  11758-3 0  9992
2 39768  97.8692  67.2038 0006069 310.8489  49.2195 14.85473487461053

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC