NORAD 56950
BLACKJACK ACES-3
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 56950
- International designator
- 2023-084U
- Launch date
- Jun 12, 2023
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,264.800 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
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- Range
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- Naked-eye visibility
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- Sub-satellite grid
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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 telemetry
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,264.800 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 300,000
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-28 15:30:49 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About BLACKJACK ACES-3
BLACKJACK ACES-3 is a satellite from the United States, launched on Jun 12, 2023 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 95 minutes (15.2 times a day), between 508 and 509 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.6° 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.
Aces-3 · American technology demonstration satellite operated by DARPA
- Operated by
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Built by
- CACI, Lockheed Martin Space, Blue Canyon Technologies, SEAKR Engineering
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 17 days its lowest point went from 508 km to 508 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.