NORAD 29108
CALIPSO
Time
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Position
- Latitude
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Speed
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From your location
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 29108
- International designator
- 2006-016B
- Launch date
- Apr 28, 2006
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,220.000 MHz · FM2,268.467 MHz · BPSK8,150.000 MHz · FM
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8,330.000 MHz · FM - Beacon
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- Mode
- BPSK, FM
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 DopplerMode-S dumps (active over Sweden)
Transmitter · Meteorological · FM
- Downlink
- 2,220.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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S-band telemetry
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,268.467 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 24,000
Mode X dumps (active over Norway)
Transmitter · Meteorological · FM
- Downlink
- 8,150.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-04 21:48:18 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 98 minutes, on an orbit tilted 98.4° from the equator, between 661 and 678 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About CALIPSO
CALIPSO is a satellite from France, launched on Apr 28, 2006 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 98 minutes (14.7 times a day), between 662 and 663 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.
CALIPSO · decommissioned joint NASA and CNES Earth observation satellite
- Operated by
- CNES, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Built by
- Alcatel Space
- Mass
- 635 kg
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 24 days its lowest point went from 662 km to 662 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.