Himawari

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/10143

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • HIMAWARI 1 (GMS 1)
  • NORAD 10143
  • 1977-065A
  • Inclined geosynchronous

Current orbit

Where Himawari is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Brazil

Orbit ends over Brazil

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Himawari 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 Himawari, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Brazil LIVE

Where is Himawari?

At 6:20:40 PM UTC Himawari was over Brazil (2.8° S, 59° W), 36,054 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Himawari?

A satellite that watches the Earth in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Jul 14, 1977.

Can I see Himawari?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Himawari, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
National Space Development Adminstration
State
Japan (Nippon), State of
Built by
Hughes Space and Comms. Co (Hughes Satellite Systems)
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
280 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Inclined geosynchronous

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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
2.8° S, 59° W
Altitude
36,054 km
Speed
3.07 km/s (11,038 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
6.2°
Orbital period
1,450.9 minutes
Orbits per day
0.99
This orbit
36,003 to 36,151 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,950 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:16 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:16 AM, 11 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Himawari 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Himawari shares its launch, 1977-065, with 50 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
DELTA 1 R/B(1)Rocket body
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
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HIMAWARI 1 AKMRocket 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Himawari36,003 to 36,151 km1,451 minutes280 kg1977
GOES-1935,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5 t2024
Meteosat-1235,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3.8 t2022
Meteosat-1135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 2 t2015
GOES-1635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2016
GOES-1735,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2018

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:16 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HIMAWARI 1 (GMS 1)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1977-065A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:16:00.027840",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.99249947,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00174213,
  "INCLINATION": 6.1773,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 291.3539,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 259.2759,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 268.3035,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 10143,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12265,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000207,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}