KEPLER-0 (KIPP)

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10-day predictions

NORAD ID: 43157

Int'l Code: 2018-008C

Perigee: 513.9 km

Apogee: 534.7 km

Inclination: 97.4 °

Period: 95.0 minutes

Semi major axis: 6895 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: January 19, 2018
Source: Canada (CA)
Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China (JSC)

KIPP is the first Canadian satellite launched on a Chinese rocket, and the first commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite to use Ku-band frequencies. Nicknamed KIPP after a robot in the 2014 sci-fi movie “Interstellar,” the 30-centimeter by 10-centimeter by 10-centimeter nanosatellite is the first of two demonstration satellites Scotland’s Clyde Space built for Kepler, which aims to deploy a constellation of 140 satellites to connect devices on Earth and in space.

1 43157U 18008C   22270.09436114  .00007712  00000-0  40081-3 0  9991
2 43157  97.3519 325.3162 0015069 144.2201 216.0045 15.16248874258563

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC