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IRIDIUM 142
Global Mobile Satellite Network (Iridium NEXT) · Iridium Communications
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Iridium 142, one of the 66 operational Iridium NEXT satellites providing global mobile satellite phone and data coverage. This satellite is one of the satellites whose predecessor generation produced the famous 'Iridium flares' — bright reflected sunlight glints that Iridium NEXT's redesigned antennas quietly eliminated.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 485–487 mi (780–783 km)
- Inclination
- 86.4°
- One orbit
- 100.3 minutes14.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 43256
- Int’l designator
- 2018-030H
- Launched
- 2018
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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