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 2026-09-08 08:29 UTC

Orbit class

HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)

Operator

United States Government

Country

United States

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Mar 6, 2018

Mass

—

Apogee

7,060 km

Perigee

206 km

Inclination

26.82°

Period

2.77 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for PODSAT across 14 days of archived orbital elements (15 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-14.1 km

Rate

-1.01 km/day

Now

206 × 7060 km

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)).

HISPASAT 30W-6 · 43228

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