AEHF-3 (USA 246)
NORAD 39256 · 2013-050A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2013-09-18
- Launch site
- AFETR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 19.95
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-27T07:30:22.955616Z
- Period
- 1,436.09 min
- Inclination
- 5.5415°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0092478
- Mean motion
- 1.00272316 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,396.5 km
- Apogee alt
- 36,176.4 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.6 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 66.1870°
- Arg perigee
- 188.8488°
- Mean anomaly
- 99.4150°
- Rev number
- 4,667
§ Raw data
AEHF-3 (USA 246)1 39256U 13050A 26270.31276569 .00000037 00000+0 00000+0 0 99982 39256 5.5415 66.1870 0092478 188.8488 99.4150 1.00272316 46673
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/39256 · /tle
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