NORAD 25991
DMSP 5D-2 F15 (USA 147)
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 25991
- International designator
- 1999-067A
- Launch date
- Dec 12, 1999
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 400.032 MHz · CW
- Beacon
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- Mode
- CW
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Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
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- Elevation
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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 DopplerCW
Transmitter · CW
- Downlink
- 400.032 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-04 11:38:00 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 102 minutes, on an orbit tilted 99.0° from the equator, between 835 and 850 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About DMSP 5D-2 F15 (USA 147)
DMSP 5D-2 F15 (USA 147) is a satellite from the United States, launched on Dec 12, 1999 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 102 minutes (14.2 times a day), between 827 and 840 km up, on an orbit tilted 99.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 81° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
DMSP 5D-3/F15 · Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 24 days its lowest point went from 826 km to 827 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.