TEMPEST-D

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TEMPEST-D is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 43547

Int'l Code: 1998-067NV

Perigee: 310.1 km

Apogee: 317.7 km

Inclination: 51.6 °

Period: 90.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 6684 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: November 20, 1998
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

TEMPEST-D (Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems - Demonstrator) is a 6U CubeSat mission to provide risk mitigation for the six-satellite TEMPEST mission that will provide the first temporal observations of cloud and precipitation processes on a global scale. These observations are important to understand the linkages in and between Earth’s water and energy balance, as well as to improve our understanding of cloud model microphysical processes that are vital to climate change prediction. TEMPEST-D consists of one of the proposed TEMPEST 6U CubeSats, to raise the technology readiness level of the system to TRL 9 and to demonstrate its measurement capabilities.

1 43547U 98067NV  21108.66919209  .00081107  00000-0  28573-3 0  9992
2 43547  51.6318 195.0317 0005647   9.3302 350.7807 15.88399910157459

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC