NORAD 46984
S6 MICHAEL FREILICH
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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- Right ascension
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 46984
- International designator
- 2020-086A
- Launch date
- Nov 21, 2020
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,256.800 MHz · BPSK8,090.000 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- BPSK, FM
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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 DopplerS-Band transmitter
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,256.800 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 599,999
X-Band dumps (Norway, Sweden)
Transmitter · Meteorological · FM
- Downlink
- 8,090.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-31 02:15:01 UTC
- TLE age
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Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 112 minutes, on an orbit tilted 66.0° from the equator, between 1,346 and 1,353 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About S6 MICHAEL FREILICH
S6 MICHAEL FREILICH is a satellite from the European Space Agency, launched on Nov 21, 2020 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 112 minutes (12.8 times a day), between 1,332 and 1,344 km up, on an orbit tilted 66.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 66° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich · Earth observation satellite
- Operated by
- EUMETSAT
- Built by
- Thales Alenia Space, Beyond Gravity
- Mass
- 1,226 kg
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 20 days its lowest point went from 1,332 km to 1,332 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.