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WGS F8 (USA 272)

NORAD 41879 · 2016-075A

PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN

§ Identity

Operator
Country
US
Launch date
2016-12-07
Launch site
AFETR
Launch vehicle
Mass (kg)
RCS (m²)

Purposes: comms

External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter

§ Orbital elements

Epoch: 2026-09-18T20:03:38.583072Z

Period
1,436.11 min
Inclination
0.0188°
Eccentricity
0.0000095
Mean motion
1.00270580 rev/d
Perigee alt
35,786.5 km
Apogee alt
35,787.3 km
Semi-major
42,165.1 km
B*
0.0000e+0
RAAN
128.6323°
Arg perigee
191.1611°
Mean anomaly
128.6740°
Rev number
3,575

§ Raw data

WGS F8 (USA 272)1 41879U 16075A   26261.83586323 -.00000207  00000+0  00000+0 0  99912 41879   0.0188 128.6323 0000095 191.1611 128.6740  1.00270580 35758

JSON: /api/v1/satellites/41879 · /tle

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