3 Mar
2024
3 Mar
'24
10 a.m.
On 2024-02-29 the Iranian satellite PARS 1 was launched from Russia on a Soyuz 2 1B rocket into a 500 km sunsynchronous orbit. It was part a group of 18 small satellites that were launched together with the Russian weather satellite Meteor-M 2-4.
PARS 1 is an Earth observation satellite with a 15 km resolution camera. It has a telemetry downlink on 145.000 MHz and wideband data downlinks in the S-band and X-band.
PARS 1 is object 59065 (2024-039Q). TLEs are available.
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