VENUS

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VENUS is classified as:

NORAD ID: 42901

Int'l Code: 2017-044B

Perigee: 567.1 km

Apogee: 573.3 km

Inclination: 97.4 °

Period: 95.9 minutes

Semi major axis: 6941 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: August 2, 2017
Source: Israel (ISRA)
Launch site: FRENCH GUIANA (FRGUI)

VENUS (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite) is a near polar sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite being jointly built by the Israeli Space Agency and CNES. The satellite has a scientific and a technological mission. The satellite has a 2-day revisit orbit which allows constant viewing angles at constant sun lighting angles. The unique combination is hoped to allow the development of new image processing methods. A set of at least 50 points of interest around the world were chosen to be scanned throughout the scientific mission. The points will be rescanned every 2 days for the entire duration of the mission where it will collect sensory and imagery data.

1 42901U 17044B   24116.88675969  .00010738  00000-0  83931-3 0  9990
2 42901  97.3990 178.4706 0004517 129.9759 230.1863 15.01245091363044

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC