BIROS

BIROS is no longer on orbit
BIROS is classified as:

Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 41604

Int'l Code: 2016-040F

Launch date: June 22, 2016
Source: Germany (GER)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)
Decay date: 2026-01-22

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 437.525
Beacon (MHz):
Mode: 4k8 GMSK
Call sign:
Status: Inactive

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.

1 41604U 16040F   26022.73596191  .14769030  23777-5  11778-3 0  9997
2 41604  97.0481  61.6306 0009019 275.2378  84.7900 16.52384104535297

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC