- NORAD 101146
- 2026-239C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches HAWK-16A 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 HAWK-16A, 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.
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is HAWK-16A?
At 6:21:28 PM UTC HAWK-16A was over the Pacific Ocean (24.9° S, 158.7° W), 534 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.
What is HAWK-16A?
A satellite in low Earth orbit.
Can I see HAWK-16A?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for HAWK-16A, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 24.9° S, 158.7° W
- Altitude
- 534 km
- Speed
- 7.59 km/s (27,331 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:51 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- Orbital period
- 95 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.15
- This orbit
- 507 to 527 km
- In shadow
- 26 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,630 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for HAWK-16A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to HAWK-16A 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
HAWK-16A shares its launch, 2026-239, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| HAWK-16C | Satellite |
| HAWK-16B | Satellite |
| ELECTRON KICK STAGE R/B | 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, 7:22 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "HAWK-16A",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-239C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:22:25.358016",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.15258008,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00148556,
"INCLINATION": 97.4789,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 160.7124,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 222.8725,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 137.135,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 101146,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 242,
"BSTAR": 0.00022053067,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004091,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}