NORAD 43796
THEA
Time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Altitude
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Speed
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- Kilometers per second
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From your location
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- Right ascension
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 43796
- International designator
- 2018-099AQ
- Launch date
- Dec 3, 2018
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 400.595 MHz · FSK AX.100 Mode 5
- Beacon
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- Mode
- FSK AX.100 Mode 5
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 U - 2k4 TLM
Transmitter · Space Research · FSK AX.100 Mode 5
- Downlink
- 400.595 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 2,400
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-01 22:35:22 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About THEA
THEA is a satellite from the United States, launched on Dec 3, 2018 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 94 minutes (15.4 times a day), between 442 and 453 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.
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 21 days its lowest point went from 446 km to 442 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.