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SAUDICOMSAT 5
Saudi Amateur Radio Satellite · KACST (Saudi Arabia)
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SaudiSat/SaudiComSat 5, one of a series of small Saudi Arabian satellites carrying amateur radio store-and-forward payloads, part of a national program that also trained the first generation of Saudi satellite engineers who later contributed to the Kingdom's more advanced reconnaissance and communications satellite programs.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 396–438 mi (638–704 km)
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- One orbit
- 98.0 minutes14.7 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 31124
- Int’l designator
- 2007-012H
- Launched
- 2007
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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