NORAD 29107
CLOUDSAT
Time
- Local time
- -
- -
Position
- Latitude
- -
- Longitude
- -
- Altitude
- -
Speed
- Miles per hour
- -
- Kilometers per second
- -
- Miles per second
- -
From your location
- Azimuth
- -
- Elevation
- -
- Right ascension
- -
- Declination
- -
- Local sidereal time
- -
Sunlight
- Day / night
- -
Identity
- NORAD ID
- 29107
- International designator
- 2006-016A
- Launch date
- Apr 28, 2006
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
- -
- Downlink
- 2,217.500 MHz · BPSK2,262.305 MHz · BPSK
- Beacon
- -
- Mode
- BPSK
Active transmitters from SatNOGS DB, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Your station
- Grid locator
- -
Live
- Azimuth
- -
- Elevation
- -
- Range
- -
- Range rate
- -
- Naked-eye visibility
- -
- Sub-satellite grid
- -
- Footprint diameter
- -
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 DopplerCloud Profiling Radar downlink
Transmitter · Meteorological · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,217.500 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- -
S-band telemetry
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,262.305 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 500,000
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-04 21:35:42 UTC
- TLE age
- -
Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 97 minutes, on an orbit tilted 98.4° from the equator, between 610 and 622 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About CLOUDSAT
CLOUDSAT is a satellite from the United States, launched on Apr 28, 2006 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 97 minutes (14.9 times a day), between 606 and 612 km up, on an orbit tilted 98.4° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 82° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
CloudSat · decommissioned NASA Earth observation satellite
- Operated by
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Built by
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies
- Mass
- 999 kg
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 24 days its lowest point went from 606 km to 606 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.