SBIRS GEO-5 (USA 315)
NORAD 48618 · 2021-042A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2021-05-18
- Launch site
- AFETR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-27T03:01:38.678304Z
- Period
- 1,436.10 min
- Inclination
- 4.9849°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002067
- Mean motion
- 1.00271590 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,777.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,795.4 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.8 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 329.9195°
- Arg perigee
- 222.1653°
- Mean anomaly
- 313.0624°
- Rev number
- 1,979
§ Raw data
SBIRS GEO-5 (USA 315)1 48618U 21042A 26270.12614211 -.00000268 00000+0 00000+0 0 99962 48618 4.9849 329.9195 0002067 222.1653 313.0624 1.00271590 19797
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/48618 · /tle
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