KOMPSAT-5 (Arirang-5)
COSPAR 2013-042A · NORAD 39227
🇰🇷 Korea
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
📡 ReceptionNORAD #39227
Frequency
X-Band (9.66 GHz SAR) / S-Band
Modulation: COSI X-band SAR (1 m-class synthetic aperture radar)
Free Reception Guide
Korea's first radar imaging satellite (launched 22 Aug 2013 UTC on Dnepr): sees floods and oil spills through cloud and darkness. Not receivable by hobbyists.NORAD Two-Line Element (TLE · SGP4) — TLE epoch 2026-11-03 20:00 UTC
1 39227U 13042A 26307.83384943 .00000886 00000+0 67583-4 0 9997
2 39227 97.6194 132.5989 0004579 42.0758 318.0818 15.04522947724853
This satellite's image downlink (high-rate X-band etc.) is not something hobby equipment can receive. Use the operator's public imagery services and follow its position on the Earth 3D view (CelesTrak elements).
Mission
- Agency
- Korea Aerospace Research Institute
- Launch date
- 2013-08-22
- Status (SATCAT)
- operational
- Launch site code
- DLS
- Owner code
- SKOR
- COSPAR ID
- 2013-042A
- NORAD ID
- 39,227
Source:Korea Aerospace Research Institute · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 95.71 min
- Inclination
- 97.62°
- Apogee
- 556 km
- Perigee
- 550 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 96 minutes — about 15 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (2013) turns 13 this year.