Esail

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General

Designation	46273 / 20061B
Launch date	3 Sep 2020
Country of origin	Canada
Mission	Telecommunications
Perigee/Apogee	515 km, sun-synchronous
Inclination	97.5°
Period	95 min
Launch vehicle	Vega #16

Built by LuxSpace with the support of the Luxembourg Space Agency under an ESA Partnership Project with ExactEarth and the support of the Canadian Space Agency. It will track ships world-wide by detecting messages that ships radio-broadcast via AIS.
110 kg at launch

sat-index articles

n2yo.com tracking

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