Communications
APRIZESAT 9
IoT / Machine-to-Machine · SpaceQuest
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The ninth AprizesSat, maintaining the constellation's coverage density. SpaceQuest's decade-long program demonstrated enduring commercial demand for store-and-forward satellite data services — a market now served by hundreds of satellites from dozens of operators, but pioneered by this modest constellation of compact spacecraft.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 377–433 mi (606–697 km)
- Inclination
- 97.9°
- One orbit
- 97.6 minutes14.8 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 40018
- Int’l designator
- 2014-033J
- Launched
- 2014
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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