NORAD 59481
WSF-M
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Altitude
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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
- 59481
- International designator
- 2024-070A
- Launch date
- Apr 11, 2024
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,237.500 MHz · BPSK2,252.500 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 DopplerMode S - TTC
Transmitter · Space Operation · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,237.500 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 800,000
Mode S - Payload
Transmitter · Earth Exploration · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,252.500 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 200,000
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-27 23:25:02 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 101 minutes, on an orbit tilted 98.7° from the equator, between 829 and 845 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About WSF-M
WSF-M is a satellite from the United States, launched on Apr 11, 2024 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 101 minutes (14.2 times a day), between 820 and 826 km up, on an orbit tilted 98.7° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 81° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Weather System Follow-on Microwave 1 · U.S. Department of Defense meteorology satellite
- Operated by
- United States Space Force
- Built by
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies
- Mass
- 1,200 kg
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 16 days its lowest point went from 820 km to 820 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.