IRIDIUM 178
NORAD 56729 · 2023-068V
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2023-05-20
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- —
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-19T05:18:53.714592Z
- Period
- 97.29 min
- Inclination
- 86.6593°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002539
- Mean motion
- 14.80044268 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 627.4 km
- Apogee alt
- 631.0 km
- Semi-major
- 7,007.3 km
- B*
- 8.3406e-5
- RAAN
- 346.0946°
- Arg perigee
- 93.0696°
- Mean anomaly
- 267.0816°
- Rev number
- 18,027
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1781 56729U 23068V 26262.22145503 .00000657 00000+0 83406-4 0 99902 56729 86.6593 346.0946 0002539 93.0696 267.0816 14.80044268180277
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/56729 · /tle
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