Anik C3

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/13652

  • Communications satellite
  • ANIK C3 (TELESAT-5)
  • NORAD 13652
  • 1982-110C
  • Inclined geosynchronous

Current orbit

Where Anik C3 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arafura Sea

Orbit ends over the Arafura Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Anik C3 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 Anik C3, 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Philippine Sea LIVE

Where is Anik C3?

At 5:35:17 PM UTC Anik C3 was over the Philippine Sea (11.3° N, 134.9° E), 35,897 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Anik C3?

A communications satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Nov 11, 1982.

Can I see Anik C3?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Anik C3, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Telesat Canada
State
Canada
Built by
Hughes Space and Comms. Co (Hughes Satellite Systems)
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
599 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Inclined geosynchronous

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

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
11.3° N, 134.9° E
Altitude
35,897 km
Speed
3.07 km/s (11,052 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 2:25 PM UTC
Inclination
12.3°
Orbital period
1,441.3 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,878 to 35,899 km
In shadow
57 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 7,950 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:28 PM, 18 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:28 PM, 18 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Anik C3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Anik C3 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

Anik C3 shares its launch, 1982-110, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SBS 3Communications satellite
SBS 3 R/B(PAM-D)Rocket body
ANIK C3 R/B(PAM-D)Rocket body

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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Anik C335,878 to 35,899 km1,441 minutes599 kg1982
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011
Hotbird 13F35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.5 t2022

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 11:28 PM, 18 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ANIK C3 (TELESAT-5)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1982-110C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:28:38.730720",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.99912852,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00025424,
  "INCLINATION": 12.3277,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 333.2091,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 288.9176,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 272.6311,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 13652,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 4794,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000354,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}