STARLINK-2728

NORAD 48478 · 2021-040BC

PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN

§ Identity

Operator: —
Country: US
Launch date: 2021-05-09
Launch site: AFETR
Launch vehicle: —
Mass (kg): —
RCS (m²): —

Purposes: comms

External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter

§ Orbital elements

Epoch: 2026-05-25T03:07:16.313952Z

Period: 94.01 min
Inclination: 53.1586°
Eccentricity: 0.0001222
Mean motion: 15.31680925 rev/d
Perigee alt: 470.0 km
Apogee alt: 471.6 km
Semi-major: 6,848.9 km
B*: -3.4720e-5
RAAN: 195.6095°
Arg perigee: 81.4154°
Mean anomaly: 278.6986°
Rev number: 27,820

§ Raw data

STARLINK-27281 48478U 21040BC  26145.13004993 -.00001442  00000+0 -34720-4 0  99972 48478  53.1586 195.6095 0001222  81.4154 278.6986 15.31680925278201

JSON: /api/v1/satellites/48478 · /tle

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