NORAD 7003
AUREOLE 2
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 7003
- International designator
- 1973-107A
- Launch date
- Dec 26, 1973
- Launch site
- PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE 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
- 2026-10-23 21:20:59 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
About AUREOLE 2
AUREOLE 2 is a satellite from France, launched on Dec 26, 1973 from Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex.
It circles Earth every 89 minutes (16.2 times a day), between 198 and 227 km up, on an orbit tilted 73.9° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 74° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Oreol 2 · Soviet-French research satellite
- Built by
- Pivdenne Design Office
- Mass
- 348 kg
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 12 days its lowest point went from 237 km to 198 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.