IRIDIUM 119
NORAD 42959 · 2017-061E
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2017-10-09
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-05-25T02:28:26.752224Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3985°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002238
- Mean motion
- 14.34217458 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.1 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.3 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- -5.6858e-6
- RAAN
- 34.8984°
- Arg perigee
- 84.9173°
- Mean anomaly
- 275.2278°
- Rev number
- 45,150
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1191 42959U 17061E 26145.10308741 .00000004 00000+0 -56858-5 0 99972 42959 86.3985 34.8984 0002238 84.9173 275.2278 14.34217458451500
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/42959 · /tle
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