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PODSAT

NORAD 43229· COSPAR 2018-023B· Active satellite· Other / Unclassified· HEO
Launch
Launched on Mar 6, 2018 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 4.
Falcon 9 Block 4 | Hispasat 30W-6 (Hispasat 1F) →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-24 01:33 UTC
Orbit class
HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)
Operator
United States Government
Country
United States
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Mar 6, 2018
Mass
—
Apogee
6,964 km
Perigee
202 km
Inclination
26.84°
Period
2.75 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for PODSAT across 60 days of archived orbital elements (61 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Decaying
Change
-64.9 km
Rate
-1.08 km/day
Now
202 × 6964 km
36457088202Aug 26Oct 25
Apogee Perigee

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.

Launched with

One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2018-023 (Falcon 9 Block 4 | Hispasat 30W-6 (Hispasat 1F)).

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