NORAD 40958
LQSAT
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
- 40958
- International designator
- 2015-057A
- Launch date
- Oct 7, 2015
- Launch site
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 437.650 MHz · MSK437.650 MHz · CW2,404.000 MHz · QPSK31
- Beacon
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- Mode
- CW, MSK, QPSK31
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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 DopplerTLM
Transmitter · MSK
- Downlink
- 437.650 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 4,800
TLM
Transmitter · CW
- Downlink
- 437.650 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 25
TLM
Transmitter · QPSK31
- Downlink
- 2,404.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 1,000,000
Recent receptions
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Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 13:21:48 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 97.7° from the equator, between 711 and 734 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About LQSAT
LQSAT is a satellite from China, launched on Oct 7, 2015 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China.
It circles Earth every 98 minutes (14.8 times a day), between 627 and 651 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.7° 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.
LQSAT · Chinese earth observation satellite
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 628 km to 627 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.