GEO-KOMPSAT-2B (Cheollian-2B)
COSPAR 2020-013B · NORAD 45246
🇰🇷 Korea
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
📡 ReceptionNORAD #45246
Frequency
X-Band / S-Band (GOCI-II & GEMS data published by KHOA and NIER)
Modulation: GOCI-II (ocean colour, 250 m) / GEMS (air quality: NO₂, O₃, aerosols)
Free Reception Guide
Not a hobby-receivable satellite. GEMS air-quality maps (hourly in daytime) and GOCI-II ocean images are published free by NIER's Environmental Satellite Center and KHOA.NORAD Two-Line Element (TLE · SGP4) — TLE epoch 2026-11-03 16:58 UTC
1 45246U 20013B 26307.70702764 -.00000351 00000+0 00000+0 0 9996
2 45246 0.0130 285.1707 0002187 326.5210 174.0823 1.00268203 24670
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
- 2020-02-18
- Status (SATCAT)
- operational
- Launch site code
- FRGUI
- Owner code
- SKOR
- COSPAR ID
- 2020-013B
- NORAD ID
- 45,246
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
- 0.03°
- Apogee
- 35,796 km
- Perigee
- 35,777 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 (2020) turns 6 this year.