- Navigation satellite
- Military
- OPS 5118 (NAVSTAR 6)
- NORAD 11783
- 1980-032A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Black Sea
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Navstar 6 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 Navstar 6, 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.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Australia LIVE
Where is Navstar 6?
At 6:25:23 PM UTC Navstar 6 was over Australia (29.5° S, 116.8° E), 21,330 km up, moving at 3.69 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Navstar 6?
A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Apr 26, 1980.
Can I see Navstar 6?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Navstar 6, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Rockwell/Seal Beach
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 431 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:25 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:25 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 29.5° S, 116.8° E
- Altitude
- 21,330 km
- Speed
- 3.69 km/s (13,288 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 3:47 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 61.8°
- Orbital period
- 707.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.03
- This orbit
- 18,465 to 21,394 km
- In shadow
- 44 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,440 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 5, 2026, 6:28 PM, 2 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 5, 2026, 6:28 PM, 2 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Navstar 6, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Navstar 6 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 5, 2026, 6:28 PM, 2 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 5118 (NAVSTAR 6)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1980-032A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-05T18:28:18.568704",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.03455641,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.05567951,
"INCLINATION": 61.7893,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 243.604,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 51.1335,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 124.9471,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 11783,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 34463,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -5e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}