IRIDIUM 178
NORAD 56729 · 2023-068V
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2023-05-20
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-05-25T02:59:01.898592Z
- Period
- 97.28 min
- Inclination
- 86.6559°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002391
- Mean motion
- 14.80237220 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 626.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 630.3 km
- Semi-major
- 7,006.7 km
- B*
- 1.0383e-4
- RAAN
- 34.9967°
- Arg perigee
- 88.7729°
- Mean anomaly
- 271.3766°
- Rev number
- 16,295
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1781 56729U 23068V 26145.12432753 .00000815 00000+0 10383-3 0 99942 56729 86.6559 34.9967 0002391 88.7729 271.3766 14.80237220162958
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/56729 · /tle
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