BIROS

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BIROS is classified as:

• Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 41604
Int'l Code: 2016-040F
Perigee: 379.4 km
Apogee: 388.1 km
Inclination: 97.1 °
Period: 92.1 minutes
Semi major axis: 6754 km
RCS: Unknown
Launch date: June 22, 2016
Source: Germany (GER)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)



The BIROS satellite developed by DLR, the German Aerospace Center, is equipped with an infrared detector to find forest fires. About the size of a refrigerator, BIROS will fly in formation with Germany's TET 1 satellite launched in 2012 to conduct tandem fire detection experiments as part of DLR's FireBIRD mission.

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NOAA 16 DEB Track 1 satellite(s)

1 41604U 16040F   25192.35740784  .00020944  00000-0  22448-3 0  9995
2 41604  97.0843 221.3397 0006409  71.2664 288.9291 15.63826342504468

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC