- Military
- NORAD 10016
- 1977-038A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Arabian Sea
Orbit ends over the Arabian Sea
In view from you
Nobody watches OPS 9751 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 OPS 9751, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is OPS 9751?
At 7:03:49 PM UTC OPS 9751 was over the Indian Ocean (5.9° N, 53.3° E), 34,108 km up, moving at 3.2 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OPS 9751?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since May 23, 1977.
Can I see OPS 9751?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPS 9751, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 350 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 5.9° N, 53.3° E
- Altitude
- 34,108 km
- Speed
- 3.2 km/s (11,520 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 7.2°
- Orbital period
- 1,436.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 30,312 to 41,284 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,900 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 2:47 AM, 16 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:47 AM, 16 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPS 9751, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OPS 9751 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
OPS 9751 shares its launch, 1977-038, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ATLAS AGENA R/B(2) | Rocket body |
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 8, 2026, 2:47 AM, 16 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 9751",
"OBJECT_ID": "1977-038A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:47:37.108608",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00235223,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.13007606,
"INCLINATION": 7.207,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 332.3027,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 134.6396,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 50.1985,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 10016,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2789,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000109,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}