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GLOBALSTAR M086
Mobile Satellite Communications · Globalstar
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One of Globalstar's second-generation satellites, part of the constellation reserving 85% of its total capacity for Apple's iPhone Emergency SOS via satellite feature. Since the service's 2022 launch, Apple has publicized cases of the feature contributing to real rescues — stranded hikers, crash victims, and travelers located and saved using exactly this kind of satellite link.
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
- 38045
- Int’l designator
- 2011-080F
- Launched
- 2011
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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