FORTE
Mission information
- Name
- FORTE
- Alternate Names
- Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events
- Satellite ID
- JSVB-5618-9837-5426-1381
- NORAD ID
- 24920
- Country of Origin
-
United States of America
Status
Operational
Satellite is in orbit and operational
Image

Description
FORTE is a US DOE-sponsored (Department of Energy) spacecraft designed and built by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The spacecraft features an advanced radio frequency (RF) impulse detection and characterization experiment. The prime objective is the measurement of electromagnetic pulses (EMP), primarily due to lightning, within a noise environment dominated by continuous wave (CW) carriers, such as TV and FM stations.
SatNOGS Links
CW
- Type
- Transmitter
- Downlink Mode
- CW
- Downlink Frequency
- 401568000
Suggestion - Mode U TLM
- Type
- Transmitter
- Downlink Mode
- BPSK
- Downlink Frequency
- 401565000
- Baud
- 1024
Most Recent Observers (last 24h)
No observations recorded for FORTE in the last 24h
Data Frames Decoded - 30 Days
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Orbital Elements
Latest Two-Line Element (TLE)
- TLE Source
- Celestrak (SatNOGS)
- TLE Updated
- 2025-04-18 09:13:41 UTC
- TLE Set
-
1 24920U 97047A 25107.92695933 .00000598 00000+0 26508-3 0 9990
2 24920 69.9527 254.3519 0020602 144.0882 216.1629 14.27669353438258
FORTE Suggestion
- Name
- FORTE
- NORAD ID
- 24920
- Alternative Names
- P94-1, Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events
- Description
- FORTE is a US DOE-sponsored (Department of Energy) spacecraft designed and built by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The spacecraft features an advanced radio frequency (RF) impulse detection and characterization experiment. The prime objective is the measurement of electromagnetic pulses (EMP), primarily due to lightning, within a noise environment dominated by continuous wave (CW) carriers, such as TV and FM stations.
- image
- status
- alive
- countries
- launched
- Aug. 29, 1997, midnight