NORAD 60542
QPS-SAR-8 AMATERU-IV
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
- 60542
- International designator
- 2024-149CC
- Launch date
- Aug 16, 2024
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
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- Beacon
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- Mode
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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 Doppler-
Recent receptions
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Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-26 00:00:36 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About QPS-SAR-8 AMATERU-IV
QPS-SAR-8 AMATERU-IV is a satellite from Japan, launched on Aug 16, 2024 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 96 minutes (15.1 times a day), between 548 and 554 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.
QPS-SAR-8 · Japanese commercial synthetic aperture radar satellite
- Operated by
- iQPS
- Built by
- iQPS
- Mass
- 100 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 15 days its lowest point went from 548 km to 548 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.