BIROS

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BIROS is classified as:

• Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 41604
Int'l Code: 2016-040F
Perigee: 479.1 km
Apogee: 491.8 km
Inclination: 97.2 °
Period: 94.2 minutes
Semi major axis: 6856 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   23154.68224106  .00006097  00000-0  21770-3 0  9992
2 41604  97.1634 190.8271 0009328 336.8321  23.2498 15.29164334386039

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC