IRIDIUM 126
NORAD 42809 · 2017-039G
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2017-06-25
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-27T01:55:50.976768Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3960°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002306
- Mean motion
- 14.34218344 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.3 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 5.7957e-5
- RAAN
- 311.0734°
- Arg perigee
- 91.7088°
- Mean anomaly
- 268.4372°
- Rev number
- 48,455
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1261 42809U 17039G 26270.08045112 .00000182 00000+0 57957-4 0 99982 42809 86.3960 311.0734 0002306 91.7088 268.4372 14.34218344484552
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/42809 · /tle
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