NORAD 42901
VENUS
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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Speed
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From your location
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 42901
- International designator
- 2017-044B
- Launch date
- Aug 2, 2017
- Launch site
- FRENCH GUIANA
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,285.001 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- FM
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 · FM
- Downlink
- 2,285.001 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 04:06:51 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About VENUS
VENUS is a satellite from ISRA, launched on Aug 2, 2017 from French Guiana.
It circles Earth every 95 minutes (15.2 times a day), between 517 and 519 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.3° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 83° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
VENµS · Israeli French remote sensing satellite multispectral imaging and testing hall effect thruster
- Operated by
- CNES, Israel Space Agency
- Built by
- Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 517 km to 517 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.