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SKYSAT-C2
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Part of Planet's 2016 batch deployment that demonstrated high-resolution satellite imagery could be deployed at the pace of a software company, not a traditional aerospace program. Planet's batch launch strategy made it the most rapidly deployed commercial high-resolution imaging system ever built.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 270–274 mi (435–442 km)
- Inclination
- 97.0°
- One orbit
- 93.2 minutes15.5 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 41773
- Int’l designator
- 2016-058D
- Launched
- 2016
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.