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SITRO-AIS 42
Russian Commercial AIS Ship Tracking Constellation · SITRO / Sitronics Group (Russia)
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SITRO-AIS 42, a 3U CubeSat contributing to a constellation dense enough to track a ship's near-complete route across open ocean, well beyond where any coastal AIS station could ever pick up its signal.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 182–184 mi (293–297 km)
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- One orbit
- 90.3 minutes16.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 61756
- Int’l designator
- 2024-199X
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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