NORAD 7369
OPS 7518 (NTS 1)
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
- 7369
- International designator
- 1974-054A
- Launch date
- Jul 14, 1974
- 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
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- Range
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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
- 2026-10-21 09:06:13 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 7.8 hours, on an orbit tilted 124.9° from the equator, between 13,369 and 13,868 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
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About OPS 7518 (NTS 1)
OPS 7518 (NTS 1) is a satellite from the United States, launched on Jul 14, 1974 from Air Force Western Test Range.
It circles Earth every 469 minutes (3.1 times a day), between 13,479 and 13,742 km up, on an orbit tilted 124.9° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 55° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Navigation Technology Satellite-1 · American experimental military navigation satellite
- Operated by
- Space Test Program
- Built by
- United States Naval Research Laboratory
- Mass
- 293 kg
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