IRIDIUM 153
NORAD 43078 · 2017-083J
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: 2026-09-19T23:16:39.252000Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3918°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002411
- Mean motion
- 14.34217335 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 775.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.4 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 9.5573e-7
- RAAN
- 250.8231°
- Arg perigee
- 86.9404°
- Mean anomaly
- 273.2067°
- Rev number
- 45,886
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1531 43078U 17083J 26262.96989875 .00000022 00000+0 95573-6 0 99982 43078 86.3918 250.8231 0002411 86.9404 273.2067 14.34217335458860
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43078 · /tle
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