IRIDIUM 33 DEB
Iridium 33 was an operational satellite in the Iridium voice-and-data constellation when it was struck by the defunct Russian Kosmos-2251 on 10 February 2009 at about 789 km altitude — the first accidental collision between two intact satellites. Its debris cloud accounts for roughly 600 catalogued fragments; together the two clouds produced over 2,000.
Second-generation Iridium constellation; 66 active sats provide global comms.
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for IRIDIUM 33 DEB across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
From the same launch
60 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 1997-051 (Proton-K/17S40 | Iridium 27 to 33).
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 38474
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 38477
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 39777
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 39778
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 39781
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 40996
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 40998
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 46435
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 46734
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 46965
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 46971
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 46972
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 46974
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 46979
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33860
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33862
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33866
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33870
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33881
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33884
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33886
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33887
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33953
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB · 33960
…and 36 more from this launch.
Sources & further reading
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