IRIDIUM 178
NORAD 56729· COSPAR 2023-068V· OneWeb / Iridium· LEO
Launch
Launched on May 20, 2023 from Space Launch Complex 4E, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Iridium-9 & OneWeb 19 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 12:56 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
Iridium Communications
Country
United States
Manufacturer
Thales Alenia Space
Launched
May 20, 2023
Mass
—
Apogee
635 km
Perigee
631 km
Inclination
86.66°
Period
1.62 h
Part of the Iridium NEXT constellation · this satellite is one of 192
Second-generation Iridium constellation; 66 active sats provide global comms.
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for IRIDIUM 178 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.5 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
631 × 635 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
20 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2023-068 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Iridium-9 & OneWeb 19).
- ONEWEB-0561 · 56710
- ONEWEB-0668 · 56711
- ONEWEB-0676 · 56712
- ONEWEB-0677 · 56713
- ONEWEB-0678 · 56714
- ONEWEB-0679 · 56715
- ONEWEB-0680 · 56716
- ONEWEB-0681 · 56717
- ONEWEB-0682 · 56718
- ONEWEB-0683 · 56719
- ONEWEB-0684 · 56720
- ONEWEB-0686 · 56721
- ONEWEB-0694 · 56722
- ONEWEB-0696 · 56723
- ONEWEB-0703 · 56724
- ONEWEB-0721 · 56725
- IRIDIUM 181 · 56726
- IRIDIUM 177 · 56727
- IRIDIUM 174 · 56728
- IRIDIUM 179 · 56730
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