NORAD 40376
SMAP
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
- 40376
- International designator
- 2015-003A
- Launch date
- Jan 31, 2015
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,274.300 MHz · DBPSK8,180.000 MHz · FM
- Beacon
- -
- Mode
- DBPSK, 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 9k6 DBPSK Telemetry Experimental
Transmitter · DBPSK
- Downlink
- 2,274.300 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 9,600
S-Band DBPSK Telemetry
Transmitter · DBPSK
- Downlink
- 2,274.300 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 4,588
Mode X
Transmitter · Meteorological · FM
- Downlink
- 8,180.000 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 11:20:47 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 98 minutes, on an orbit tilted 98.1° from the equator, between 713 and 728 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About SMAP
SMAP is a satellite from the United States, launched on Jan 31, 2015 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 98 minutes (14.6 times a day), between 681 and 683 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.
Soil Moisture Active Passive · NASA environmental monitoring satellite
- Operated by
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Built by
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Mass
- 944 kg
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 681 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.