NORAD 15071
USA 3
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 15071
- International designator
- 1984-065C
- Launch date
- Jun 25, 1984
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
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- Beacon
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- Mode
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Active transmitters from SatNOGS DB, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
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- Range
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- Naked-eye visibility
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- Sub-satellite grid
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- Footprint diameter
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Upcoming passes
Next 48 h · your local timeUse your location to predict passes.
Mutual visibility
With another station · next 48 hUse your location to find mutual windows.
Transmitters
Nominal · add location for Doppler-
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-25 15:14:47 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About USA 3
USA 3 is a satellite from the United States, launched on Jun 25, 1984 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 95 minutes (15.2 times a day), between 519 and 523 km up, on an orbit tilted 95.9° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 84° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
former American SIGINT satellite
- Operated by
- United States Air Force
- Built by
- Lockheed Corporation
- Mass
- 340 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 14 days its lowest point went from 520 km to 519 km. Sudden rises are engine burns that lift the orbit; slow declines are drag from the thin upper atmosphere.
From Space-Track element sets, one point a day.