Key statistics
Satellite IRIDIUM 33 DEB at a glance.
Uptime
10101
Days in orbit
Revolutions
≈ 14.7
Per day
Orbit
LEO
Low Earth Orbit
Inclination
86.3
Latest
Satellite identification and parameters
Extended collection of information and parameters for IRIDIUM 33 DEB.
Object identification
Identified? True
Debris? True
Object name: IRIDIUM 33 DEB
International designator: 1997-051RX
Object number (NORAD): 35744
Object ID (CCSDS): 35744
Country: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (US)
Current information (Y/N): Y
RCS size: SMALL
Orbital parameters
Period: 98.103 minutes
Inclination: 86.3306 deg
SMA: 7046.072 km
Apoapsis: 682.356 km
Periapsis: 653.519 km
RAAN: 62.7817 deg
Eccentricy: 0.0020463
Argument of periapsis: 220.0297 deg
Mean anomaly: 139.941 deg
Mean motion: 14.67851505 rev/day
Mean motion (dot): 0.00006268 rev/day2
B* drag term: 0.0010902 1/REarth
Two-line elements (TLE)
Creation date: May 10, 2025, 5:27 p.m.
Reference frame: TEME
Reference center: EARTH
Epoch: May 10, 2025, 1:11 p.m. UTC
TLE line 0: 0 IRIDIUM 33 DEB
TLE line 1: 1 35744U 97051RX 25130.54993987 .00006268 00000-0 10902-2 0 9996
TLE line 2: 2 35744 86.3306 62.7817 0020463 220.0297 139.9410 14.67851505841573
Live tracking on map
Real-time ground track for satellite IRIDIUM 33 DEB.
Associated space launch
Iridium provides global mobile telecommunications services using a constellation of 66 low earth orbit satellites in a 86.4° inclined orbit. Although 77 satellites were originally envisioned for the system and spawned the name based on the 77th element in the periodic table, the system has been scaled back. Motorola's Satellite Communications Group designed and manufactured the Iridium satellites with Lockheed Martin providing the LM-700A spacecraft buses.
IRIDIUM 33 DEB was lifted into orbit during the mission ‘Proton-K/17S40 | Iridium 27 to 33’, on board a Proton-K/17S40 space rocket.
The launch took place on Sept. 14, 1997, 1:36 a.m. from 81/23 (81L).
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Proton-K/17S40 | Iridium 27 to 33
Agency: N/A
Status: Launch Successful
Launch date: Sept. 14, 1997, 1:36 a.m. UTC
Rocket: Proton-K/17S40
Launch pad: 81/23 (81L)
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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