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: 2026-09-27T00:56:07.140192Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3920°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002353
- Mean motion
- 14.34217884 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.4 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 5.6164e-6
- RAAN
- 279.1392°
- Arg perigee
- 88.9228°
- Mean anomaly
- 271.2237°
- Rev number
- 45,873
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1381 43071U 17083B 26270.03897153 .00000036 00000+0 56164-5 0 99922 43071 86.3920 279.1392 0002353 88.9228 271.2237 14.34217884458731
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43071 · /tle
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