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: 2026-09-27T04:39:30.555360Z
- Period
- 97.29 min
- Inclination
- 86.6836°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002373
- Mean motion
- 14.80047624 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 627.5 km
- Apogee alt
- 630.8 km
- Semi-major
- 7,007.3 km
- B*
- 1.0245e-4
- RAAN
- 352.0462°
- Arg perigee
- 91.1342°
- Mean anomaly
- 269.0152°
- Rev number
- 18,145
§ Raw data
IRIDIUM 1791 56730U 23068W 26270.19410365 .00000801 00000+0 10245-3 0 99992 56730 86.6836 352.0462 0002373 91.1342 269.0152 14.80047624181457
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/56730 · /tle
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