SCATSAT 1

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SCATSAT 1 is classified as:

Weather

NORAD ID: 41790

Int'l Code: 2016-059H

Perigee: 716.9 km

Apogee: 742.9 km

Inclination: 98.2 °

Period: 99.3 minutes

Semi major axis: 7100 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: September 26, 2016
Source: India (IND)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

SCATSAT 1 is a 818-pound (371-kilogram) spacecraft funded and built in India to join an international fleet of orbiting radars designed to track hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical cyclones. The spacecraft, fitted with a rotating Ku-band radar antenna, will bounce microwave radar beams off the ocean surface to determine the water's roughness. Data processors can derive wind strength and direction from the radar returns, feeding information to meteorologists about conditions away from coastlines and buoys.

1 41790U 16059H   18316.17330707  .00000015  00000-0  14996-4 0  9998
2 41790  98.2417   1.1366 0018293   1.6069 358.5181 14.50879828112643

Source of the keplerian elements: AMSAT