BIROS

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BIROS is classified as:

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NORAD ID: 41604
Int'l Code: 2016-040F
Perigee: 495.8 km
Apogee: 514.9 km
Inclination: 97.3 °
Period: 94.6 minutes
Semi major axis: 6876 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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1 41604U 16040F   21133.69899251  .00000825  00000-0  38405-4 0  9994
2 41604  97.2656 187.2939 0013885 102.0965 258.1829 15.22527982271614

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC