NORAD 37223
RAX (USA 218)
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Longitude
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- Altitude
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Speed
- Miles per hour
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- Kilometers per second
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From your location
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- Right ascension
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- Declination
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 37223
- International designator
- 2010-062B
- Launch date
- Nov 20, 2010
- Launch site
- Kodiak Island, Alaska
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
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- Beacon
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- Mode
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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 Doppler-
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-03 18:58:04 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About RAX (USA 218)
RAX (USA 218) is a satellite from the United States, launched on Nov 20, 2010 from Kodiak Island, Alaska.
It circles Earth every 96 minutes (15.0 times a day), between 556 and 572 km up, on an orbit tilted 72.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 72° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
RAX · American microsatellite
- Operated by
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 23 days its lowest point went from 555 km to 556 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.