FLTSATCOM 8 (USA 46)
NORAD 20253 · 1989-077A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 1989-09-25
- Launch site
- AFETR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 32.54
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-19T18:21:35.879040Z
- Period
- 1,436.11 min
- Inclination
- 12.3972°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003042
- Mean motion
- 1.00270693 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,774.1 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,799.7 km
- Semi-major
- 42,165.0 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 350.5815°
- Arg perigee
- 228.5677°
- Mean anomaly
- 180.6861°
- Rev number
- 26,151
§ Raw data
FLTSATCOM 8 (USA 46)1 20253U 89077A 26262.76499860 -.00000364 00000+0 00000+0 0 99922 20253 12.3972 350.5815 0003042 228.5677 180.6861 1.00270693261514
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/20253 · /tle
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