NORAD 49950
GLOBAL-16
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
- 49950
- International designator
- 2021-120B
- Launch date
- Dec 9, 2021
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 401.150 MHz · BPSK
- Beacon
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- Mode
- BPSK
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 DopplerUHF Unknown
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 401.150 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-30 18:23:26 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 92 minutes, on an orbit tilted 42.0° from the equator, between 181,306,462,842 and 200,326,702,142 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About GLOBAL-16
GLOBAL-16 is a satellite from the United States, launched on Dec 9, 2021 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex.
It circles Earth every 92 minutes (15.6 times a day), between 387 and 407 km up, on an orbit tilted 42.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 42° 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 19 days its lowest point went from 389 km to 387 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.