AQUA
NORAD 27424 · 2002-022A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2002-05-04
- Launch site
- AFWTR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 7.84
Purposes: earth_obs
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-05-25T04:30:29.769120Z
- Period
- 98.49 min
- Inclination
- 98.4265°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0001909
- Mean motion
- 14.62116117 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 685.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 687.7 km
- Semi-major
- 7,064.5 km
- B*
- 1.3679e-4
- RAAN
- 114.0139°
- Arg perigee
- 64.8815°
- Mean anomaly
- 305.9047°
- Rev number
- 27,991
§ Raw data
AQUA1 27424U 02022A 26145.18784455 .00000638 00000+0 13679-3 0 99902 27424 98.4265 114.0139 0001909 64.8815 305.9047 14.62116117279911
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/27424 · /tle
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§ Radio — SatNOGS DB
| Mode | Description | Downlink | Uplink |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPSK | S-band telemetry | 2.288 GHz | — |
| SQPSK | X-band downlink [SQPSK, RHCP, 255/223] Transmitter | 8.160 GHz | — |
2 transmitters · refreshed weekly from db.satnogs.org