NORAD 63263
SOAP
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
- 63263
- International designator
- 2025-052BF
- Launch date
- Mar 15, 2025
- Launch site
- AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE
- Radar size (RCS)
- Medium (0.1–1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,220.000 MHz · FM8,253.500 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- FM
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 - Transmitter
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,220.000 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Mode X - Transmitter
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 8,253.500 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-24 07:00:02 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About SOAP
SOAP is a satellite from France, launched on Mar 15, 2025 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 96 minutes (15.0 times a day), between 575 and 576 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.
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 13 days its lowest point went from 574 km to 575 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.