NORAD 28054
DMSP 5D-3 F16 (USA 172)
Time
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Position
- Latitude
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Speed
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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
- 28054
- International designator
- 2003-048A
- Launch date
- Oct 18, 2003
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,207.510 MHz · BPSK2,212.834 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- BPSK, FM
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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 DopplerS-band telemetry
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,207.510 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 700,000
S-band telemetry
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,212.834 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-04 22:34:37 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 838 and 864 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About DMSP 5D-3 F16 (USA 172)
DMSP 5D-3 F16 (USA 172) is a satellite from the United States, launched on Oct 18, 2003 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 102 minutes (14.1 times a day), between 838 and 850 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/F16 · Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 24 days its lowest point went from 839 km to 838 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.