IRIDIUM 76

NORAD 25432 · Payload · Reentered 2018-08-28

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Launched: 1998-08-19 · Taiyuan, China
Country / operator: US (United States)
Object type: Payload
Purpose: Communications
Mass: 667 kg
Size: 3.5 × 1 m · 5 m deployed
Orbit class: LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee: 116 × 167 km
Inclination: 86.8°
Period: 87.2 min
Eccentricity: 0.0039
Orbit data: Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Constellation: Iridium

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).

Same launch

Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.