Clementine

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General

Designation	25978 / 99064B
Launch date	3 Dec 1999
Country of origin	France
Mission	Military: ELINT
Perigee/Apogee	646/665 km
Inclination	98.1°
Period	97.8 min
Launch vehicle	Ariane V124

Owned by DGA (more precisely it is operated by the centre electronique de l'armement based in Rennes). This satellite is said to be similar to Cerise but operating in different frequency bands.

Note: there is another spacecraft named Clementine. This is not an earth satellite, therefore not documented in this encyclopedia. The other Clementine was a Deep Space Program Science Experiment aimed to the moon.

To catalog radio sources between 20 MHz and 1 GHz. (should cost $18 million).

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External resources

sat-index articles

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	Alcatel Space (with Thomson)
Platform
Mass at launch	50 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

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