NORAD 59291
AEROCUBE 16B
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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Speed
- Miles per hour
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- Kilometers per second
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From your location
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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
- 59291
- International designator
- 2024-053D
- Launch date
- Mar 21, 2024
- Launch site
- WALLOPS ISLAND
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,225.000 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- 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 telemetry
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,225.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-26 22:18:20 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 93 minutes, on an orbit tilted 50.0° from the equator, between 344,549,239 and 347,771,337 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About AEROCUBE 16B
AEROCUBE 16B is a satellite from the United States, launched on Mar 21, 2024 from Wallops Island.
It circles Earth every 93 minutes (15.5 times a day), between 423 and 425 km up, on an orbit tilted 50.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 50° 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 15 days its lowest point went from 424 km to 423 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.