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GLOBALSTAR M080
Mobile Satellite Communications · Globalstar
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One of Globalstar's second-generation satellites, contributing to a network whose most famous customer — Apple — didn't exist as a partner when these satellites were designed and launched. The 2022 Emergency SOS partnership redirected the entire commercial trajectory of a company that had spent the 2000s and early 2010s as a struggling satellite phone also-ran.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 882–884 mi (1,420–1,422 km)
- Inclination
- 52.0°
- One orbit
- 114.1 minutes12.6 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 38041
- Int’l designator
- 2011-080B
- Launched
- 2011
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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