NORAD 25560
SWAS
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
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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
- 25560
- International designator
- 1998-071A
- Launch date
- Dec 6, 1998
- Launch site
- Pegasus launched from Western Range Air Space
- 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
- 2026-11-03 19:00:41 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About SWAS
SWAS is a satellite from the United States, launched on Dec 6, 1998 from Pegasus launched from Western Range Air Space.
It circles Earth every 95 minutes (15.1 times a day), between 532 and 538 km up, on an orbit tilted 69.9° 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.
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite · NASA space observatory
- Built by
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies
- Mass
- 288 kg
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 23 days its lowest point went from 534 km to 532 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.