NORAD 59965
PREFIRE-1
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
- -
Identity
- NORAD ID
- 59965
- International designator
- 2024-108A
- Launch date
- Jun 5, 2024
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
- -
- Downlink
- 2,212.100 MHz · BPSK2,212.500 MHz · BPSK
- Beacon
- -
- 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
- -
- 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 · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,212.100 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 800,000
S-band telemetry
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,212.500 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 800,000
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-26 22:59:30 UTC
- TLE age
- -
Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About PREFIRE-1
PREFIRE-1 is a satellite from the United States, launched on Jun 5, 2024 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex.
It circles Earth every 94 minutes (15.2 times a day), between 483 and 500 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.5° 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.
PREFIRE 2 · NASA CubeSat studying Earth's infrared radiation
- Operated by
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Built by
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Science and Engineering Center
- Mass
- 3 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 15 days its lowest point went from 485 km to 483 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.