BIROS

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BIROS is classified as:

Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 41604

Int'l Code: 2016-040F

Perigee: 454.1 km

Apogee: 467.5 km

Inclination: 97.1 °

Period: 93.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 6831 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: June 22, 2016
Source: Germany (GER)
Launch site: SRIHARIKOTA (SRI)

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 437.525
Beacon (MHz):
Mode: 4800bps GMSK
Call sign:
Status: Inactive

The BIROS satellite developed by DLR, the German Aerospace Center, is equipped with an infrared detector to find forest fires. About the size of a refrigerator, BIROS will fly in formation with Germany's TET 1 satellite launched in 2012 to conduct tandem fire detection experiments as part of DLR's FireBIRD mission.

1 41604U 16040F   24135.04209649  .00017514  00000-0  47800-3 0  9995
2 41604  97.1255 164.4967 0009831 158.7043 201.4613 15.37437711438935

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC