OPS 1292

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/11852

  • Military
  • NORAD 11852
  • 1980-052C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where OPS 1292 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over the Weddell Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches OPS 1292 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 OPS 1292, 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.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is OPS 1292?

At 7:04:10 PM UTC OPS 1292 was over the Pacific Ocean (17.1° S, 150.5° W), 1,333 km up, moving at 7.19 km/s and in sunlight.

What is OPS 1292?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 18, 1980.

Can I see OPS 1292?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPS 1292, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
National Reconnaissance Office
State
United States of America
Built by
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
120 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, 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
7:04 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:04 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
17.1° S, 150.5° W
Altitude
1,333 km
Speed
7.19 km/s (25,884 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 7:43 PM UTC
Inclination
96.6°
Orbital period
112.2 minutes
Orbits per day
12.84
This orbit
1,323 to 1,325 km
In shadow
28 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,830 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:19 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:19 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPS 1292, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to OPS 1292 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 2:19 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 1292",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1980-052C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:19:25.759488",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 12.83724373,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00013462,
  "INCLINATION": 96.6083,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 181.1025,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 263.6444,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 96.4508,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 11852,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 11644,
  "BSTAR": 0.000013834006,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -1.5e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}