ASTROCAST-02

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NORAD ID: 44083

Int'l Code: 2019-018F

Perigee: 499.1 km

Apogee: 518.6 km

Inclination: 97.5 °

Period: 94.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 6879 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: April 1, 2019
Source: (SWTZ)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

ASTROCAST-02 and ASTROCAST-01 satellites are precursors and In-Orbit-Demonstration mission for Astrocast SA's constellation. Astrocast is a planned network of Nanosatellites providing global L-band machine-to-machine (M2M) services. The satellites are orbiting in a low earth polar orbit. This allows the creation of a global network covering the entire globe, including the poles. Thanks to a dedicated frequency band, the constellation can scale without fear of noise generated by other devices. Astrocast estimates it can build, launch and operate a 64-cubesat constellation for less than $50 million to provide low-data-rate communications. The constellation will consist of eight operational satellites per orbital plane, and eight different orbital planes in sun-synchronous polar orbits.

1 44083U 19018F   19171.12201347  .00000285  00000-0  15848-4 0  9992
2 44083  97.4684 231.0963 0014203  10.8322 349.3217 15.21374834 12133

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC