NORAD 60530
OBJECT BQ
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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Speed
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From your location
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- Right ascension
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 60530
- International designator
- 2024-149BQ
- Launch date
- Aug 16, 2024
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 435.410 MHz · GMSK
- Beacon
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- Mode
- GMSK
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 9k6 Telemetry
Transmitter · Space Operation · GMSK
- Downlink
- 435.410 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 4,800
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-26 03:34:47 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 96 minutes, on an orbit tilted 97.7° from the equator, between 495 and 510 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About OBJECT BQ
OBJECT BQ is an object from TBD, launched on Aug 16, 2024 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 96 minutes (15.0 times a day), between 576 and 578 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.7° 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.