IRIDIUM 159
NORAD 43578 · 2018-061K
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2018-07-25
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-27T06:39:42.488640Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.4017°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002262
- Mean motion
- 14.34218003 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.3 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 1.2713e-5
- RAAN
- 14.0149°
- Arg perigee
- 94.3881°
- Mean anomaly
- 265.7573°
- Rev number
- 42,801
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1591 43578U 18061K 26270.27757510 .00000055 00000+0 12713-4 0 99912 43578 86.4017 14.0149 0002262 94.3881 265.7573 14.34218003428015
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43578 · /tle
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