IRIDIUM 143
NORAD 43258 · 2018-030K
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: 2026-09-04T04:14:38.913792Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.3912°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002192
- Mean motion
- 14.34220183 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.1 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.2 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- -8.8132e-6
- RAAN
- 257.5236°
- Arg perigee
- 87.3189°
- Mean anomaly
- 272.8257°
- Rev number
- 44,141
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1431 43258U 18030K 26247.17683928 -.00000005 00000+0 -88132-5 0 99922 43258 86.3912 257.5236 0002192 87.3189 272.8257 14.34220183441418
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43258 · /tle
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