NORAD 26609
AMSAT OSCAR 40
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Altitude
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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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- Declination
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 26609
- International designator
- 2000-072B
- Launch date
- Nov 16, 2000
- Launch site
- FRENCH GUIANA
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 435.450 MHz · BPSK
- Beacon
- 435.450 MHz · BPSK
- Mode
- BPSK
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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 Doppler70cm General Beacon
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 435.450 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 400
Recent receptions
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Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-04 03:49:39 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 19.1 hours, on an orbit tilted 9.3° from the equator, between 1,117 and 58,750 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About AMSAT OSCAR 40
AMSAT OSCAR 40 is a satellite from Germany, launched on Nov 16, 2000 from French Guiana.
It circles Earth every 1,147 minutes (1.3 times a day), between 1,114 and 58,707 km up, on an orbit tilted 9.3° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 9° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
AO-40 · amateur radio satellite of the OSCAR series
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