NORAD 38337
GCOM W1
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 38337
- International designator
- 2012-025A
- Launch date
- May 17, 2012
- Launch site
- TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,220.000 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- FM
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Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
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- Elevation
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- Range
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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
- 2,220.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 19:29:29 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 99 minutes, on an orbit tilted 98.2° from the equator, between 743 and 758 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About GCOM W1
GCOM W1 is a satellite from Japan, launched on May 17, 2012 from Tanegashima Space Center.
It circles Earth every 99 minutes (14.6 times a day), between 702 and 703 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.
Shizuku · JAXA Earth observation satellite
- Operated by
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mass
- 1,990 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 701 km to 702 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.