IRIDIUM 119
NORAD 42959 · 2017-061E
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: 2026-09-27T04:45:10.673280Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.4018°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002263
- Mean motion
- 14.34218337 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.3 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 2.3835e-5
- RAAN
- 342.6290°
- Arg perigee
- 93.1289°
- Mean anomaly
- 267.0166°
- Rev number
- 46,943
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1191 42959U 17061E 26270.19804020 .00000087 00000+0 23835-4 0 99942 42959 86.4018 342.6290 0002263 93.1289 267.0166 14.34218337469439
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/42959 · /tle
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