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: 2026-09-13T00:26:31.127712Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3905°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002131
- Mean motion
- 14.34217537 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.1 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.2 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 1.2126e-6
- RAAN
- 253.6074°
- Arg perigee
- 88.2490°
- Mean anomaly
- 271.8950°
- Rev number
- 44,272
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1421 43256U 18030H 26256.01841583 .00000023 00000+0 12126-5 0 99942 43256 86.3905 253.6074 0002131 88.2490 271.8950 14.34217537442726
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43256 · /tle
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