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: 2026-09-20T03:49:04.238976Z
- Period
- 1,436.11 min
- Inclination
- 5.5235°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0092274
- Mean motion
- 1.00270528 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,397.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 36,176.0 km
- Semi-major
- 42,165.1 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 66.2561°
- Arg perigee
- 188.6081°
- Mean anomaly
- 37.2194°
- Rev number
- 4,660
§ Raw data
AEHF-3 (USA 246)1 39256U 13050A 26263.15907684 .00000027 00000+0 00000+0 0 99902 39256 5.5235 66.2561 0092274 188.6081 37.2194 1.00270528 46606
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/39256 · /tle
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