- NORAD 13912
- 1965-108V
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Saudi Arabia
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches OV2-3 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 OV2-3, 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 OV2-3?
At 6:52:15 PM UTC OV2-3 was over the Pacific Ocean (24.8° S, 179.7° E), 13,123 km up, moving at 3.47 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OV2-3?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Dec 21, 1965.
Can I see OV2-3?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OV2-3, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Systems Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Northrop Space Laboratories, Northrop Corp.
- Launched
- Mass
- 194 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
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 24.8° S, 179.7° E
- Altitude
- 13,123 km
- Speed
- 3.47 km/s (12,485 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In sunlight until 9:43 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 26.6°
- Orbital period
- 269.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 5.35
- This orbit
- 278 to 14,595 km
- In shadow
- 28 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 6,810 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 3:26 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:26 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OV2-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OV2-3 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
OV2-3 shares its launch, 1965-108, with 31 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B | Rocket body |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB | Debris |
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, 3:26 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OV2-3",
"OBJECT_ID": "1965-108V",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:26:33.074304",
"MEAN_MOTION": 5.34887472,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.5181548,
"INCLINATION": 26.5701,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 264.1273,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 89.8617,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 326.7413,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 13912,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 57839,
"BSTAR": 0.0013248491,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00011449,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}