NORAD 33498
STARS (KUKAI)
In orbit
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Time
- Local time
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Position
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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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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 33498
- International designator
- 2009-002G
- Launch date
- Jan 23, 2009
- Launch site
- TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 437.275 MHz · CW
- Beacon
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- Mode
- CW
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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 DopplerCW (JR5YBO)
Transmitter · Amateur · CW
- Downlink
- 437.275 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
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Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-17 14:39:16 UTC
- TLE age
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About STARS (KUKAI)
STARS (KUKAI) is a satellite from Japan, launched on Jan 23, 2009 from Tanegashima Space Center.
It circles Earth every 96 minutes (15.0 times a day), between 571 and 585 km up, on an orbit tilted 98.2° 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.
Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite I · Japanese tethered nano-satellite
- Operated by
- Kagawa University
- Built by
- Kagawa University
- Mass
- 8 kg
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