IRIDIUM 100
NORAD 42956 · 2017-061B
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2017-10-09
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-19T23:31:26.707872Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.4022°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002202
- Mean motion
- 14.34218010 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.1 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.2 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 1.7571e-5
- RAAN
- 345.5774°
- Arg perigee
- 95.1026°
- Mean anomaly
- 265.0421°
- Rev number
- 46,836
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1001 42956U 17061B 26262.98017023 .00000069 00000+0 17571-4 0 99982 42956 86.4022 345.5774 0002202 95.1026 265.0421 14.34218010468365
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/42956 · /tle
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