IRIDIUM 179
NORAD 56730 · 2023-068W
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: 2026-05-25T04:28:38.555040Z
- Period
- 97.28 min
- Inclination
- 86.6795°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002360
- Mean motion
- 14.80239201 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 626.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 630.2 km
- Semi-major
- 7,006.7 km
- B*
- 1.1732e-4
- RAAN
- 43.8816°
- Arg perigee
- 81.8721°
- Mean anomaly
- 278.2769°
- Rev number
- 16,296
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1791 56730U 23068W 26145.18655735 .00000918 00000+0 11732-3 0 99922 56730 86.6795 43.8816 0002360 81.8721 278.2769 14.80239201162967
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/56730 · /tle
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