SPACEMOBILE-012

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/100241

  • Communications satellite
  • NORAD 100241
  • 2026-179B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SPACEMOBILE-012 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches SPACEMOBILE-012 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 SPACEMOBILE-012, 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Altitude

520 km525 km530 km535 km
SPACEMOBILE-012, one reading a day from Sep 16, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026. The band runs from the lowest point of the orbit to the highest; the line is the middle of it.

One reading a day, worked out from the elements Space-Track publishes.

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is SPACEMOBILE-012?

At 4:10:02 AM UTC SPACEMOBILE-012 was over the Atlantic Ocean (1.9° N, 6.6° W), 525 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is SPACEMOBILE-012?

A BlueBird communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 5, 2026.

Can I see SPACEMOBILE-012?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SPACEMOBILE-012, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

SPACEMOBILE-012 is one of the 12 communications satellites of the BlueBird constellation. See every BlueBird satellite and how many are above you right now.

Launched
Known to its operator as
BlueBird 12
Typical altitude
495 to 535 km

Latest orbital data

Position received
4:10 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:10 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
1.9° N, 6.6° W
Altitude
525 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,367 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 4:12 AM UTC
Inclination
53°
Orbital period
95.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.13
This orbit
523 to 529 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,610 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 1, 2026, 10:51 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 1, 2026, 10:51 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for SPACEMOBILE-012, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to SPACEMOBILE-012 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
Losing to drag
SPACEMOBILE-012 is falling about 10 m a day, read from the last 48 days of samples.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 2, 2026, 1:53 PM, 14 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 1, 2026, 10:51 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SPACEMOBILE-012",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-179B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-01T22:51:27.469728",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.13442126,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0004734,
  "INCLINATION": 52.9955,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 285.3526,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 244.4315,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 115.6188,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 100241,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1342,
  "BSTAR": 0.00010772501,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001646,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}