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PROX-1
US University Satellite (Deployed & Photographed LightSail 2) · Georgia Institute of Technology
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PROX-1, a Georgia Tech satellite that deployed and photographed the Planetary Society's LightSail 2 solar sail spacecraft — the first satellite designed specifically to release and document another spacecraft's deployment sequence in orbit, capturing the historic first images of a working solar sail unfurling in space.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 369–374 mi (595–602 km)
- Inclination
- 24.0°
- One orbit
- 96.5 minutes14.9 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 44339
- Int’l designator
- 2019-036A
- Launched
- 2019
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 7 Nov 2026.
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