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Designation
Spacetrack catalog number25560
COSPAR ID1998-071-A
Name in Spacetrack catalogSWAS

Satellite Details

Orbit 592 x 608 km, 69.9°
Country/organitisation of origin USA
Intrinsic brightness (Mag) 5.7 (at 1000km distance, 50% illuminated)
Maximum brightness (Mag)3.4 (at perigee, 100% illuminated)

Launch

Date (UTC) 06 December 1998 00:57
Launch siteVandenberg AFB,
United States
Launch vehicle Pegasus XL

Description

SWAS will be used to study the cooling of molecular cloud cores, the sites of star formation in our galaxy, by measuring lines from molecular oxygen and water.
View from orbit pole
 

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