Dynamics Explorer 1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/12624

  • DYNAMICS EXPLORER 1
  • NORAD 12624
  • 1981-070A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Dynamics Explorer 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Dynamics Explorer 1 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 Dynamics Explorer 1, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Dynamics Explorer 1?

At 5:39:31 PM UTC Dynamics Explorer 1 was over the Indian Ocean (22.6° S, 96.8° E), 23,005 km up, moving at 2.29 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Dynamics Explorer 1?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Aug 3, 1981.

Can I see Dynamics Explorer 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Dynamics Explorer 1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
State
United States of America
Built by
RCA Astro Electronics (Astro Space)
Launched
Mass
424 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Highly elliptical orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
22.6° S, 96.8° E
Altitude
23,005 km
Speed
2.29 km/s (8,258 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 7:00 PM UTC
Inclination
91°
Orbital period
408 minutes
Orbits per day
3.53
This orbit
525 to 23,158 km
In shadow
65 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 7,520 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 6, 2026, 7:16 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 7:16 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Dynamics Explorer 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Dynamics Explorer 1 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

Dynamics Explorer 1 shares its launch, 1981-070, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
DELTA 1 R/B(2)Rocket body
DELTA 1 DEBDebris
DELTA 1 DEBDebris

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 6, 2026, 7:16 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "DYNAMICS EXPLORER 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1981-070A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-06T19:16:41.905920",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 3.52949307,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.62112391,
  "INCLINATION": 90.9877,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 49.1882,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 153.3215,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 260.5551,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 12624,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 73018,
  "BSTAR": 0.00041859964,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.5e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}