BRITE-U UNIBRITE

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BRITE-U UNIBRITE is classified as:

Space & Earth Science
Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 39092

Int'l Code: 2013-009G

Perigee: 775.3 km

Apogee: 789.3 km

Inclination: 98.5 °

Period: 100.4 minutes

Semi major axis: 7153 km

RCS: 0.1547 m² (medium)

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

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 145.890
Beacon (MHz): 145.890
Mode: CW
Call sign:
Status: Inactive

CANX 3B (UNIBRITE) is an Austrian satellite considered together with 3A (BRITE-AUSTRIA) 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 39092U 13009G   19020.13698111  .00000014  00000-0  20085-4 0  9992
2 39092  98.4993 227.3495 0009779  21.0121 339.1465 14.34970470308931

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC