PODSAT
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 2026-10-23 00:53 UTC
Orbit class
HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)
Operator
United States Government
Country
United States
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Mar 6, 2018
Mass
—
Apogee
6,966 km
Perigee
202 km
Inclination
26.83°
Period
2.75 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for PODSAT across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-63.8 km
Rate
-1.08 km/day
Now
202 × 6966 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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