- Navigation satellite
- Military
- NORAD 100744
- 2026-216A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches OBJECT A 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 OBJECT A, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is OBJECT A?
At 4:40:44 PM UTC OBJECT A was over the Indian Ocean (16.2° S, 77.2° E), 19,155 km up, moving at 3.95 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OBJECT A?
A GLONASS navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Sep 17, 2026.
Can I see OBJECT A?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OBJECT A, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
OBJECT A is one of the 23 navigation satellites of the GLONASS constellation. See every GLONASS satellite and how many are above you right now.
- Launched
- Known to its operator as
- GC 709
- Typical altitude
- 19,050 to 19,200 km
- Operator
- Aerospace Defence Forces
- State
- Russian Federation
- Operating
- Yes
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, and whether it is operating.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:40 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:40 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 16.2° S, 77.2° E
- Altitude
- 19,155 km
- Speed
- 3.95 km/s (14,224 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 64.8°
- Orbital period
- 676.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.13
- This orbit
- 19,139 to 19,152 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,310 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 22, 2026, 1:23 AM, 17 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 22, 2026, 1:23 AM, 17 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OBJECT A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OBJECT A 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.
Beside the others
| Constellation | Satellites | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Planes | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLONASS | 23 | 19,050 to 19,200 km | 676 minutes | — | Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corporation |
| GPS | 32 | 20,000 to 20,400 km | 718 minutes | 6 | The United States Space Force |
| Galileo | 28 | 23,100 to 23,300 km | 845 minutes | — | EUSPA, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme |
| BeiDou | 37 | 21,450 to 21,600 km | 773 minutes | — | The China Satellite Navigation Office |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Oct 22, 2026, 1:23 AM, 17 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT A",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-216A",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-22T01:23:03.723072",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.12901232,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00026756,
"INCLINATION": 64.7785,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 188.0001,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 336.0111,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 24.0437,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 100744,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 74,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 2.5e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}