BIROS

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BIROS is classified as:

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NORAD ID: 41604
Int'l Code: 2016-040F
Perigee: 500.4 km
Apogee: 515.1 km
Inclination: 97.4 °
Period: 94.6 minutes
Semi major axis: 6878 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   19202.73915880  .00000185  00000-0  11173-4 0  9992
2 41604  97.3623 263.3018 0010687 269.9487  90.0524 15.21740367170922

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC