NORAD 43662
CFOSAT
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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From your location
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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
- 43662
- International designator
- 2018-083A
- Launch date
- Oct 29, 2018
- Launch site
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,262.485 MHz · FM8,304.000 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 DopplerMode S Down
Transmitter · Meteorological · FM
- Downlink
- 2,262.485 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Mode X dumps (Sweden, China)
Transmitter · Meteorological · FM
- Downlink
- 8,304.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-01 22:34:02 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About CFOSAT
CFOSAT is a satellite from China, launched on Oct 29, 2018 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China.
It circles Earth every 95 minutes (15.2 times a day), between 516 and 518 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.4° 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.
CFOSAT · joint Chinese and French oceanography satellite
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 21 days its lowest point went from 514 km to 516 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.