- Military
- OPS 4682 (SNAPSHOT)
- NORAD 1314
- 1965-027A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Antarctica
Orbit ends over Antarctica
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches SNAPSHOT-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 SNAPSHOT-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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is SNAPSHOT-1?
At 6:52:03 PM UTC SNAPSHOT-1 was over the Pacific Ocean (56° N, 141.2° W), 1,323 km up, moving at 7.19 km/s and in sunlight.
What is SNAPSHOT-1?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 3, 1965.
Can I see SNAPSHOT-1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SNAPSHOT-1, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Systems Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- RCA Astro Electronics (Astro Space)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 422 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, 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
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 56° N, 141.2° W
- Altitude
- 1,323 km
- Speed
- 7.19 km/s (25,891 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:56 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 90.2°
- Orbital period
- 111.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 12.92
- This orbit
- 1,270 to 1,313 km
- In shadow
- 30 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,820 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 3:29 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:29 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for SNAPSHOT-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to SNAPSHOT-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.
Launched with
SNAPSHOT-1 shares its launch, 1965-027, with 203 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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 8, 2026, 3:29 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 4682 (SNAPSHOT)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1965-027A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:29:47.704992",
"MEAN_MOTION": 12.91806909,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00286194,
"INCLINATION": 90.2468,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 9.4358,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 275.9987,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 111.4242,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 1314,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 64961,
"BSTAR": -0.000014456205,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 3e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}