VIASAT-2
NORAD 42740 · 2017-029A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2017-06-01
- Launch site
- FRGUI
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-19T21:46:16.203072Z
- Period
- 1,436.09 min
- Inclination
- 0.0200°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0000991
- Mean motion
- 1.00272291 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,782.3 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,790.6 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.6 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 245.0875°
- Arg perigee
- 253.2489°
- Mean anomaly
- 117.1229°
- Rev number
- 3,414
§ Raw data
VIASAT-21 42740U 17029A 26262.90713198 -.00000269 00000+0 00000+0 0 99982 42740 0.0200 245.0875 0000991 253.2489 117.1229 1.00272291 34143
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/42740 · /tle
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