Spacetrack Directory Name | BRITE-PL1 (LEM) |
Orbit launches | 2013-11-21 |
Country/organisation of origin | Polska (POL) |
Starting point | DLS (Dombarovsky Air Base, Russia) |
WWW | Here |
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Perigee | 590 km |
Apogee | 880 km |
Lem (also called BRITE-PL) is the first Polish scientific artificial satellite. It was launched in November 2013 as part of the Bright-star Target Explorer (BRITE) programme. The spacecraft was launched aboard a Dnepr rocket. Named after the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, it is an optical astronomy spacecraft built by the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences and operated by Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika PAN; one of two Polish contributions to the BRITE constellation along with the Heweliusz satellite.
satellite BRITE-PL1 (LEM) Date of exalting 21.11.2013y.