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: 2026-09-09T05:02:05.317728Z
- Period
- 1,436.03 min
- Inclination
- 5.4974°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0091110
- Mean motion
- 1.00276311 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,401.2 km
- Apogee alt
- 36,169.5 km
- Semi-major
- 42,163.5 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 66.3651°
- Arg perigee
- 188.2898°
- Mean anomaly
- 45.0014°
- Rev number
- 4,649
§ Raw data
AEHF-3 (USA 246)1 39256U 13050A 26252.20978377 .00000009 00000+0 00000+0 0 99912 39256 5.4974 66.3651 0091110 188.2898 45.0014 1.00276311 46497
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/39256 · /tle
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