BRITE-PL1 (LEM)

Photo BRITE-PL1 (LEM)

39431
Spacetrack Directory Number
2013-11-21
Orbit launches


Satellite information BRITE-PL1 (LEM)

Spacetrack Directory Name BRITE-PL1 (LEM)
Orbit launches 2013-11-21
Country/organisation of origin Polska (POL)
Starting point DLS (Dombarovsky Air Base, Russia)
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Perigee 590 km
Apogee 880 km

Additional information BRITE-PL1 (LEM)

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.


Update time: 2023-04-18 17:53:05
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