BRITE-A TUGSAT-1

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BRITE-A TUGSAT-1 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 39091

Int'l Code: 2013-009F

Perigee: 771.5 km

Apogee: 787.9 km

Inclination: 98.4 °

Period: 100.3 minutes

Semi major axis: 7150 km

RCS: 0.11 m² (medium)

Launch date: February 25, 2013
Source: (ASRA)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 145.890/437.365
Beacon (MHz): 2234.400
Mode: 32Kbps-256Kbps BPSK
Call sign:
Status: Inactive

CANX 3A (BRITE-AUSTRIA) is an Austrian satellite considered together with CANX 3B (UNIBRITE) the smallest space telescopes ever launched. It is about the size of a toaster oven. The satellite will study the brightest stars in the sky with 10 times the precision of ground-based observatories.

1 39091U 13009F   24115.52336173  .00000812  00000-0  29520-3 0  9990
2 39091  98.3868 304.5547 0011430  63.2534 296.9821 14.35755996584576

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC