NORAD 25872
GLOBALSTAR M048
Time
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Position
- Latitude
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Speed
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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
- 25872
- International designator
- 1999-041A
- Launch date
- Jul 25, 1999
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE EASTERN 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
- 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
- 2026-11-04 02:08:14 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 2.1 hours, on an orbit tilted 51.9° from the equator, between 1,988 and 2,010 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About GLOBALSTAR M048
GLOBALSTAR M048 is a satellite from GLOB, launched on Jul 25, 1999 from Air Force Eastern Test Range.
It circles Earth every 127 minutes (11.3 times a day), between 1,980 and 2,003 km up, on an orbit tilted 51.9° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 52° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Globalstar M048 · satellite
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 24 days its lowest point went from 1,980 km to 1,980 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.