- OBJECT D
- NORAD 100128
- 2026-167D
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Mozambique
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches MEP-3 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.
Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.
No brightness has been published for MEP-3, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.
Seeing it
There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Philippine Sea LIVE
Where is MEP-3?
At 6:46:09 PM UTC MEP-3 was over the Philippine Sea (10.5° N, 129.2° E), 40,806 km up, moving at 1.96 km/s and in sunlight.
What is MEP-3?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Jul 21, 2026.
Can I see MEP-3?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for MEP-3, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Space Logistics LLC
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems Group (SSG)
- Launched
- Mass
- 500 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:46 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:46 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 10.5° N, 129.2° E
- Altitude
- 40,806 km
- Speed
- 1.96 km/s (7,052 km/h)
- Course
- west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 23.2°
- Orbital period
- 884.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.63
- This orbit
- 1,369 to 46,935 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 8,050 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 4, 2026, 8:59 AM, 4 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 4, 2026, 8:59 AM, 4 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for MEP-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to MEP-3 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.
Launched with
MEP-3 shares its launch, 2026-167, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 4, 2026, 8:59 AM, 4 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT D",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-167D",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-04T08:59:12.159456",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.62776227,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.7462379,
"INCLINATION": 23.1778,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 73.8678,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 223.2512,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 45.0864,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 100128,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 181,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.2e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}