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SCD 2
Environmental Data Collection · INPE
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Brazil's second environmental data relay satellite doubles capacity to collect sensor data from the Amazon. Together with SCD-1, it monitors river levels in basins where no roads exist and collects wildlife tracking data in the world's largest tropical ecosystem — the nervous system of Brazil's environmental monitoring network.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 460–475 mi (740–764 km)
- Inclination
- 25.0°
- One orbit
- 99.7 minutes14.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 25504
- Int’l designator
- 1998-060A
- Launched
- 1998
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 7 Nov 2026.
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