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KAZSTSAT
Earth Observation · KazCosmos / Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan's satellite provides imagery for Central Asian challenges: the shrinking Aral Sea, steppe desertification, and the vast wheat belt. Kazakhstan's territory is too large for any ground-based environmental survey — satellite observation isn't a supplement but the primary means of understanding the country's land and resources.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 349–360 mi (562–580 km)
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- One orbit
- 95.9 minutes15.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 43783
- Int’l designator
- 2018-099AB
- Launched
- 2018
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 7 Nov 2026.
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