Europe / Africa / MEA · East

40.2°E

RSCC is the registry operator, with 2 satellites on station and no FCC row.

Occupancy ±0.4°: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) 1/2 · RSCC 1/2. Window majority is not the registry operator.

On stationUnrecorded in ClarkeOperating (no FCC market-access row)

TLE epoch 2026-10-21. FCC 2026-09-27. UCS 2023-04-07. Position disagreement.

Occupancy

On station

2 satellites

±0.4° TLE-primary. Majority China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) (1/2).

Data as of 2026-10-21 · Space-Track TLE (primary) + UCS Satellite Database (fallback)

Registry operator: RSCC
Window majority: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)
Operator mix: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) 1/2 · RSCC 1/2
Country: —
Purpose: Communications
Status: On station
Position source: 2 TLE / 0 UCS fallback
Remaining life: Mid-life · ~7.7y remaining (n=2)
Coverage proxy: Middle East / West Asia · GDP 1.15 · pop 1.05
Bands: C, Ku

Source operator strings (UCS)

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC): China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)
RSCC: Russian Satellite Communications Company

Co-located satellites (2)

Satellite	Operator	Purpose	UCS lon	TLE lon	Δ	TLE epoch	Launched
Express-AM7 TLE occupancy	RSCC	Communications	40.0°E	39.9°E	0.1°	2026-10-21 (1d)	2015
Shijian 20Dispute TLE occupancy	China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)	Technology Development	125.0°E	40.2°E	84.8°	2026-10-21 (1d)	2019

Rights

License / FCC

foreign operating

No FCC row

FCC SSAL + UCS occupancy · Sep 27, 2026

Recorded rights (FCC)

Recorded public layers only. FCC SSAL when present; otherwise inferred administration/operator. ITU filings are not in this product. ITU Space Explorer is the current ITU source.

National administration
M
Unknown administration
No administration on file.
UCS operator country · Sep 27, 2026
unknown
Operator license
M
RSCC
UCS operator RSCC. No FCC market-access row at this longitude (expected for many non-US administrations and US government birds).
UCS Satellite Database · Sep 27, 2026
inferred

Freshness

TLE epoch

2026-10-21

TLE epoch is within 45 days. FCC 2026-09-27 · UCS 2023-04-07.

FCC Approved Space Station List · Sep 27, 2026

Congestion 48 · Moderate · 2 co-located

Clarke congestion v0 ← TLE-primary occupancy longitudes · Oct 21, 2026

Labeled modelImplied value, comps, and model pathNot occupancy or rights

Modeled dollars from valuation v0. Not a live market price, not a trade, and not an FCC or ITU record.

Implied fair value

Fair value (v0)

$105M

high · $82M–$128M CI · labeled model

Clarke valuation v0 (model) · Oct 21, 2026

MHand estimate / curated opinion: $100M+. Secondary to the model range. Not a competing headline, not a trade, not the fair-value figure.

No trade tape. Seeded model-path sparklines are Experimental, not default Terminal.

Arc desirability	Middle East / West Asia	×1.25
Coverage (GDP/pop)	Middle East / West Asia · GDP 1.15 · pop 1.05	×1.03
Occupancy	2 co-located satellites (TLE-primary ±0.4°)	×1.24
Remaining life	Mid-life · ~7.7y remaining (n=2)	×1.03
Operator	Tier-1 operator	×1.30
Spectrum	Ku/C-band	×1.32
Scarcity	Congestion score 48	×1.24
License / BIU	Operating (no FCC market-access row)	×1.00

Driver breakdown is Pro

Driver breakdown, compare, and export sit on a paid seat. Registry access is free.

Pricing Sign in

Valuation v0 is a model-based implied fair-value range from public registry data, not a live market price, appraisal, or offer to transact. Methodology · Valuation v0 · Data trust

Nearest comps

Positions outside this slot's ±0.4° occupancy window. Not transaction comps.

Slot	Operator	Δ	Sats	Cong.	Fair value
39°E	Hellas-Sat Consortium Ltd.	1.2°	2	43	$63M
41.5°E	EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)	1.3°	1	38	n/c
41.9°E	EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)	1.7°	5	63	n/c
42°E	Türksat	1.8°	4	58	$110M
38.1°E	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)	2.1°	2	38	$55M
42.5°E	NigComSat	2.3°	1	40	$48M

Model path

Seeded v0 path. Not observed trades, not a price index.

$105M

2026-10-21 · synthesized · model backfill, not trades

This chart shows 7 days of the model path. Pricing

ExperimentalUnrecorded layers (ITU filings are not in this product; sub-lease stub)Not default Terminal

This block is quarantined from the default Slot Terminal. It is a labeled stub or simulation, not recorded public occupancy or FCC data, and it is not a market. ITU filings are not in this product.

Quarantined stubs. ITU filings are not in this product. ITU Space Explorer is the current ITU source. These rows reserve the rights-chain shape; they are not live filings or named lessees.

ITU filing
S
Not recorded in Clarke
ITU filings are not in this product. ITU Space Explorer is the current ITU source. SNS Online shut down in January 2025. Quarantined stub. A filled ITU network panel would look like a deed; this row is not one.
Clarke stub (ITU filings are not in this product) · Sep 27, 2026 · ITU filing: not recorded in Clarke
stub
Sub-lease / capacity lease
S
No public sub-lease registry
Quarantined stub. There is no public feed of transponder or payload sub-leases. This layer is reserved for operator-disclosed or future marketplace filings and is not a named lessee.
Clarke stub · Sep 27, 2026 · Unknown. Not mocked as a named lessee
stub

Cite this

Clarke slot record, 40.2°E (40-2e). https://www.clarkebelt.finance/orbital/40-2e. Data vintage: UCS file vintage 2023-04-07, FCC as-of 2026-09-27, TLE epoch 2026-10-21. Accessed the day you open this page.