NORAD 38338
KOMPSAT 3
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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- Miles per second
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From your location
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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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
- 38338
- International designator
- 2012-025B
- Launch date
- May 17, 2012
- Launch site
- TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,232.000 MHz · BPSK
- Beacon
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- Mode
- BPSK
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 DopplerS-band telemetry
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,232.000 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 800,000
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-18 06:32:09 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About KOMPSAT 3
KOMPSAT 3 is a satellite from South Korea, launched on May 17, 2012 from Tanegashima Space Center.
It circles Earth every 98 minutes (14.6 times a day), between 681 and 691 km up, on an orbit tilted 98.1° 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.
KOMPSAT-3 · South Korean Earth observation satellite
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 366 days its lowest point went from 683 km to 681 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.