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BIROS is classified as:


NORAD ID: 41604
Int'l Code: 2016-040F
Perigee: 312.6 km
Apogee: 316.8 km
Inclination: 97.1 °
Period: 90.7 minutes
Semi major axis: 6685 km
RCS: Unknown
Launch date: June 22, 2016
Source: Germany (GER)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 437.525
Beacon (MHz):
Mode: 4800bps 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.
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NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog

Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 41604U 16040F   25343.07458980  .00184271  00000-0  66699-3 0  9996
2 41604  97.0691  14.3635 0003203 156.0040 204.1383 15.88119261528148
Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC