NORAD 37216
SKYMED 4
Time
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Position
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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
- 37216
- International designator
- 2010-060A
- Launch date
- Nov 6, 2010
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,230.007 MHz · FM2,244.272 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- 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 · FM
- Downlink
- 2,230.007 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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S-band telemetry
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,244.272 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-04 04:34:31 UTC
- TLE age
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Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 97 minutes, on an orbit tilted 97.9° from the equator, between 628 and 643 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About SKYMED 4
SKYMED 4 is a satellite from Italy, launched on Nov 6, 2010 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 97 minutes (14.8 times a day), between 622 and 624 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.9° 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.
COSMO-SkyMed 4 · Italian reconnaissance satellite
- Operated by
- Italian Space Agency
- Built by
- Alenia Spazio
- Mass
- 1,900 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 24 days its lowest point went from 621 km to 622 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.