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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: 2026-09-26T20:45:00.602784Z

Period
1,436.13 min
Inclination
0.0151°
Eccentricity
0.0000224
Mean motion
1.00269230 rev/d
Perigee alt
35,786.4 km
Apogee alt
35,788.3 km
Semi-major
42,165.4 km
B*
0.0000e+0
RAAN
140.6616°
Arg perigee
228.4165°
Mean anomaly
97.6526°
Rev number
3,584

§ Raw data

WGS F8 (USA 272)1 41879U 16075A   26269.86459031 -.00000199  00000+0  00000+0 0  99972 41879   0.0151 140.6616 0000224 228.4165  97.6526  1.00269230 35846

JSON: /api/v1/satellites/41879 · /tle

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