GEO-KOMPSAT-2A (Cheollian-2A)
COSPAR 2018-100A · NORAD 43823
🇰🇷 Korea
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📡 ReceptionNORAD #43823
Frequency
1692.14 MHz (L-Band HRIT/LRIT)
Modulation: BPSK LRIT / UHRIT
Free Reception Guide
Positioned at 128.2°E; receive full-disk HD cloud & typhoon imagery every 10 mins via KMA Open API or L-Band (1692.14 MHz) xrit-rx.NORAD Two-Line Element (TLE · SGP4) — TLE epoch 2026-11-03 16:58 UTC
1 43823U 18100A 26307.70702764 -.00000351 00000+0 00000+0 0 9999
2 43823 0.0208 109.5768 0000849 34.6544 281.5422 1.00269390 29022
Geostationary L-band (1692.14 MHz) GK-2A is received with a 1.7 GHz dish, an LNA, an RTL-SDR dongle and an open decoder such as SatDump.
Mission
- Agency
- Korea Aerospace Research Institute
- Launch date
- 2018-12-04
- Status (SATCAT)
- operational
- Launch site code
- FRGUI
- Owner code
- SKOR
- COSPAR ID
- 2018-100A
- NORAD ID
- 43,823
Source:Korea Aerospace Research Institute · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 1,436.11 min
- Inclination
- 0.05°
- Apogee
- 35,791 km
- Perigee
- 35,783 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 1,436 minutes — about 1 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (2018) turns 8 this year.