IRIDIUM 161
NORAD 43478 · 2018-047C
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2018-05-22
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-27T02:02:52.128384Z
- Period
- 99.77 min
- Inclination
- 86.4481°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002301
- Mean motion
- 14.43280621 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 746.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 749.3 km
- Semi-major
- 7,125.8 km
- B*
- 8.6519e-5
- RAAN
- 45.8288°
- Arg perigee
- 94.7390°
- Mean anomaly
- 265.4074°
- Rev number
- 43,983
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1611 43478U 18047C 26270.08532556 .00000311 00000+0 86519-4 0 99942 43478 86.4481 45.8288 0002301 94.7390 265.4074 14.43280621439838
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43478 · /tle
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