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: 2026-09-20T02:11:38.502240Z
- Period
- 100.40 min
- Inclination
- 86.4007°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002222
- Mean motion
- 14.34217565 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 776.1 km
- Apogee alt
- 779.3 km
- Semi-major
- 7,155.8 km
- B*
- 4.0106e-6
- RAAN
- 17.0152°
- Arg perigee
- 94.9097°
- Mean anomaly
- 265.2352°
- Rev number
- 42,698
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1591 43578U 18061K 26263.09141785 .00000031 00000+0 40106-5 0 99962 43578 86.4007 17.0152 0002222 94.9097 265.2352 14.34217565426988
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/43578 · /tle
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