IRIDIUM 179
NORAD 56730 · 2023-068W
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: 2026-09-19T13:17:57.162912Z
- Period
- 97.29 min
- Inclination
- 86.6838°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002381
- Mean motion
- 14.80036749 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 627.5 km
- Apogee alt
- 630.9 km
- Semi-major
- 7,007.3 km
- B*
- 8.1177e-5
- RAAN
- 355.2095°
- Arg perigee
- 90.5285°
- Mean anomaly
- 269.6209°
- Rev number
- 18,032
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1791 56730U 23068W 26262.55413383 .00000640 00000+0 81177-4 0 99972 56730 86.6838 355.2095 0002381 90.5285 269.6209 14.80036749180324
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/56730 · /tle
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