NORAD 24920
FORTE
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Longitude
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- Altitude
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Speed
- Miles per hour
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- Kilometers per second
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From your location
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- Right ascension
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 24920
- International designator
- 1997-047A
- Launch date
- Aug 29, 1997
- Launch site
- Pegasus launched from Western Range Air Space
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 401.568 MHz · CW401.570 MHz · BPSK
- Beacon
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- Mode
- BPSK, CW
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Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Range
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- Range rate
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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 DopplerCW
Transmitter · CW
- Downlink
- 401.568 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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TLM U
Transmitter · Earth Exploration · BPSK
- Downlink
- 401.570 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 4,800
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 17:17:06 UTC
- TLE age
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Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 101 minutes, on an orbit tilted 70.0° from the equator, between 819 and 838 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About FORTE
FORTE is a satellite from the United States, launched on Aug 29, 1997 from Pegasus launched from Western Range Air Space.
It circles Earth every 101 minutes (14.3 times a day), between 785 and 812 km up, on an orbit tilted 70.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 70° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
American experimental military satellite
- Operated by
- Space Test Program
- Built by
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories
- Mass
- 212 kg
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 785 km to 785 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.