NORAD 61046
SPACEMOBILE-005
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
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 61046
- International designator
- 2024-163B
- Launch date
- Sep 12, 2024
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
- -
- Downlink
- 430.500 MHz · GFSK2,225.000 MHz · BPSK2,235.000 MHz · FM
- Beacon
- -
- Mode
- BPSK, FM, GFSK
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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 DopplerMode U - Transmitter
Transmitter · GFSK
- Downlink
- 430.500 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 2,400
S-band telemetry
Transmitter · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,225.000 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
- 200,000
S-band telemetry
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,235.000 MHz
- CTCSS
- -
- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-22 15:29:14 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About SPACEMOBILE-005
SPACEMOBILE-005 is a satellite from the United States, launched on Sep 12, 2024 from Air Force Eastern Test Range.
It circles Earth every 95 minutes (15.2 times a day), between 498 and 512 km up, on an orbit tilted 53.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 53° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
BlueBird 5 · communications satellite
- Operated by
- AST SpaceMobile
- Built by
- AST SpaceMobile
- Mass
- 1,500 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 13 days its lowest point went from 497 km to 498 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.