NORAD 43672
GOSAT 2
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
- 43672
- International designator
- 2018-084B
- Launch date
- Oct 29, 2018
- Launch site
- TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
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- Beacon
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- Mode
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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 Doppler-
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-01 06:48:58 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 97 minutes, on an orbit tilted 97.9° from the equator, between 689 and 704 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About GOSAT 2
GOSAT 2 is a satellite from Japan, launched on Oct 29, 2018 from Tanegashima Space Center.
It circles Earth every 97 minutes (14.8 times a day), between 615 and 617 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.9° 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.
GOSAT 2 · earth observation satellite
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 21 days its lowest point went from 615 km to 615 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.