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APRIZESAT 3
IoT / Machine-to-Machine · SpaceQuest
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Part of SpaceQuest's early satellite IoT constellation providing store-and-forward messaging for remote locations. Its applications range from livestock tracking in Australia's outback to pipeline monitoring in the Arctic — use cases that defined the commercial satellite IoT market a decade before Starlink's IoT services arrived.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 334–389 mi (538–626 km)
- Inclination
- 98.2°
- One orbit
- 96.2 minutes15.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 35686
- Int’l designator
- 2009-041F
- Launched
- 2009
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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