VENUS

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VENUS is classified as:

NORAD ID: 42901

Int'l Code: 2017-044B

Perigee: 631.6 km

Apogee: 668.0 km

Inclination: 98.1 °

Period: 97.6 minutes

Semi major axis: 7020 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: August 2, 2017
Source: Israel (ISRA)
Launch site: FRENCH GUIANA (FRGUI)

VENUS (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite) is a near polar sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite being jointly built by the Israeli Space Agency and CNES. The satellite has a scientific and a technological mission. The satellite has a 2-day revisit orbit which allows constant viewing angles at constant sun lighting angles. The unique combination is hoped to allow the development of new image processing methods. A set of at least 50 points of interest around the world were chosen to be scanned throughout the scientific mission. The points will be rescanned every 2 days for the entire duration of the mission where it will collect sensory and imagery data.

1 42901U 17044B   21103.83406779  .00224924  00000-0  31625-1 0  9994
2 42901  98.0611 179.4034 0025978 352.5993   7.5286 14.75781634196020

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC