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SORAYA
Iranian Technology Demonstrator · Iranian Space Agency
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Soraya, Iran's technology demonstration satellite testing compact imaging hardware, launched into an unusually low 64.5° inclination, part of Iran's ongoing domestic satellite program pursued largely independent of Western technology and launch services due to decades of sanctions restricting access to foreign aerospace components.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 464–474 mi (747–763 km)
- Inclination
- 64.5°
- One orbit
- 99.8 minutes14.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 58817
- Int’l designator
- 2024-015A
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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