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GLOBALSTAR M088
Mobile Satellite Communications · Globalstar
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One of Globalstar's second-generation satellites, contributing capacity to a constellation now more famous for the invisible role it plays inside hundreds of millions of iPhones than for its original satellite phone business. When an iPhone user triggers Emergency SOS via satellite with no cellular signal, satellites like this one are what receives that message.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 883 mi (1,421 km)
- Inclination
- 52.0°
- One orbit
- 114.1 minutes12.6 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 37740
- Int’l designator
- 2011-033B
- Launched
- 2011
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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