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CYGFM08
Hurricane Wind Monitor · NASA / University of Michigan
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The eighth CYGNSS spacecraft completes the tropical belt coverage. CYGNSS has since found a second life mapping floods — detecting inundation in the Amazon and Mekong deltas faster than any previous system. A hurricane hunter that became a flood detector: space missions rarely stay confined to their original purpose.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 229–234 mi (368–377 km)
- Inclination
- 34.9°
- One orbit
- 91.8 minutes15.7 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 41888
- Int’l designator
- 2016-078E
- Launched
- 2016
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 7 Nov 2026.