- Communications satellite
- SES MPOWER-F13
- NORAD 100688
- 2026-208C
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Gulf of Thailand
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches O3b mPOWER F13 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 O3b mPOWER F13, 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.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Arabian Sea LIVE
Where is O3b mPOWER F13?
At 4:55:19 PM UTC O3b mPOWER F13 was over the Arabian Sea (3.7° N, 65.5° E), 1,607 km up, moving at 7.88 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is O3b mPOWER F13?
A communications satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Sep 13, 2026.
Can I see O3b mPOWER F13?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for O3b mPOWER F13, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- SES O3B Networks Ltd.
- State
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Built by
- Boeing Satellite Development Center, El Segundo
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.7 t
- 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, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 3.7° N, 65.5° E
- Altitude
- 1,607 km
- Speed
- 7.88 km/s (28,354 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:20 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 14.1°
- Orbital period
- 179.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 8.03
- This orbit
- 1,219 to 7,108 km
- In shadow
- 29 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 3,130 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 21, 2026, 3:34 PM, 18 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 21, 2026, 3:34 PM, 18 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for O3b mPOWER F13, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to O3b mPOWER F13 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
O3b mPOWER F13 shares its launch, 2026-208, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SES MPOWER-F11 | Communications satellite |
| SES MPOWER-F12 | Communications satellite |
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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O3b mPOWER F13 | 1,219 to 7,108 km | 180 minutes | about 1.7 t | 2026 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Oct 21, 2026, 3:34 PM, 18 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SES MPOWER-F13",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-208C",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-21T15:34:41.850336",
"MEAN_MOTION": 8.02609707,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.27929151,
"INCLINATION": 14.0557,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 27.8321,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 346.7841,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 7.1887,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 100688,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 327,
"BSTAR": 0.00000818376,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 7e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}