NNS 30480-37

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/12458

  • Navigation satellite
  • Military
  • NOVA 1
  • NORAD 12458
  • 1981-044A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where NNS 30480-37 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over Antarctica

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches NNS 30480-37 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 NNS 30480-37, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Russia LIVE

Where is NNS 30480-37?

At 6:20:48 PM UTC NNS 30480-37 was over Russia (64.4° N, 123.6° E), 1,192 km up, moving at 7.26 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is NNS 30480-37?

A navigation satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 15, 1981.

Can I see NNS 30480-37?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for NNS 30480-37, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.

General

Operator
USN Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
State
United States of America
Built by
RCA Astro Electronics (Astro Space)
What it is
Navigation satellite
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
165 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Low 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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
64.4° N, 123.6° E
Altitude
1,192 km
Speed
7.26 km/s (26,136 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:21 PM UTC
Inclination
89.8°
Orbital period
108.8 minutes
Orbits per day
13.23
This orbit
1,160 to 1,179 km
In shadow
27 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,660 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:15 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:15 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for NNS 30480-37, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to NNS 30480-37 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, 7:15 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "NOVA 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1981-044A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:15:12.456000",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.23314055,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00126832,
  "INCLINATION": 89.8424,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 86.4505,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 272.2798,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 111.237,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 12458,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 19558,
  "BSTAR": 0.000083819956,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 4.4e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}