IRIDIUM 138
NORAD 43071 · 2017-083B
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2017-12-23
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-20T01:29:27.204288Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3927°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002400
- Mean motion
- 14.34217499 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.4 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 2.7693e-6
- RAAN
- 282.0594°
- Arg perigee
- 90.9817°
- Mean anomaly
- 269.1653°
- Rev number
- 45,773
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1381 43071U 17083B 26263.06212042 .00000028 00000+0 27693-5 0 99912 43071 86.3927 282.0594 0002400 90.9817 269.1653 14.34217499457734
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43071 · /tle
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