IRIDIUM 142
NORAD 43256 · 2018-030H
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2018-03-30
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-20T04:54:35.147808Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3912°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002010
- Mean motion
- 14.34217465 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.2 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.1 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- -2.9609e-6
- RAAN
- 250.5994°
- Arg perigee
- 88.6635°
- Mean anomaly
- 271.4791°
- Rev number
- 44,375
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1421 43256U 18030H 26263.20457347 .00000011 00000+0 -29609-5 0 99962 43256 86.3912 250.5994 0002010 88.6635 271.4791 14.34217465443755
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43256 · /tle
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