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Designator id: 1998-043D

Description of TECHSAT 1B Satellite:

Techsat-1B was a 70 kg microsatellite built by the Haifa based Technion Institute of Technology in Israel to replace Techsat-1A which failed to reach orbit in 1995. The three axis stabilized satellite has as its primary payload a multispectral push-broom CCD scanner offering 12 m ground resolution. It was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome aboard a Zenit rocket into a 821 km sun-synchronous orbit with FASAT-B, TMSAT, SAFIR, WESTPAC and Resurs O2-1. The satellite transmitted a 9600-baud burst every 30 seconds lasting 3 seconds on one of the two downlinks at 435.225 MHz or 435.325 MHz.

Technical data:
Launch Date: 1998-07-10
Launch Vehicle: Zenit 2
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
Mass: 70.0 kg

Funding Agencies:
Technion Institute of Technology, Israel (Israel)

Disciplines:
Communications
Earth Science

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):

1 25397U 98043D   12339.10114222  .00000143  00000-0  81473-4 0  9389
2 25397 098.3867 309.6429 0001990 122.2069 237.9303 14.23310910748193

Last TLE update on :2012-12-04

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