NORAD 65116
QPS-SAR-12 KUSHINADA-I
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Longitude
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- Altitude
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Speed
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- Kilometers per second
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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
- 65116
- International designator
- 2025-169A
- Launch date
- Aug 5, 2025
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex
- 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
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-10-24 07:15:02 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About QPS-SAR-12 KUSHINADA-I
QPS-SAR-12 KUSHINADA-I is a satellite from Japan, launched on Aug 5, 2025 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex.
It circles Earth every 96 minutes (15.0 times a day), between 555 and 568 km up, on an orbit tilted 42.0° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 42° 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-12 · 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 13 days its lowest point went from 555 km to 555 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.