NORAD 25023
MAQSAT H
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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- Miles per second
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From your location
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Right ascension
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- Declination
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 25023
- International designator
- 1997-066A
- Launch date
- Oct 30, 1997
- Launch site
- FRENCH GUIANA
- 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
- 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 Doppler-
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 17:05:11 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 7.7 hours, on an orbit tilted 7.8° from the equator, between 3,505 and 24,194 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About MAQSAT H
MAQSAT H is a satellite from the European Space Agency, launched on Oct 30, 1997 from French Guiana.
It circles Earth every 463 minutes (3.1 times a day), between 546 and 26,347 km up, on an orbit tilted 7.8° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 8° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
MaqSat-H · instrumented dummy satellite launched in 1997
- Operated by
- Arianespace
- Built by
- Kayser-Threde GmbH
- Mass
- 2,290 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).