Tempsat 1

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  • Military
  • TEMPSAT 1
  • NORAD 1512
  • 1965-065E
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Tempsat 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Tempsat 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 Tempsat 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Tempsat 1?

At 6:36:23 PM UTC Tempsat 1 was over the Pacific Ocean (24° S, 114.4° W), 1,179 km up, moving at 7.25 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Tempsat 1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 13, 1965.

Can I see Tempsat 1?

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

General

Operator
Naval Research Lab
State
United States of America
Built by
Naval Research Lab
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
9 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
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
6:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
24° S, 114.4° W
Altitude
1,179 km
Speed
7.25 km/s (26,086 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 7:15 PM UTC
Inclination
90°
Orbital period
108 minutes
Orbits per day
13.34
This orbit
1,079 to 1,182 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,650 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 13 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Tempsat 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

Tempsat 1 shares its launch, 1965-065, with 13 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
THOR ABLESTAR DEBDebris
THOR ABLESTAR R/BRocket body
DODECAPOLE 2Satellite
THOR ABLESTAR DEBDebris
OPS 8464 (TRANSIT 5B-7)Navigation satellite
NAVSPASUR ROD 1Satellite
CALSPHERE 4(A)Satellite
THOR ABLESTAR DEBDebris
THOR ABLESTAR DEBDebris
PORCUPINE 2Satellite
THOR ABLESTAR DEBDebris
THOR ABLESTAR DEBDebris
DODECAPOLE 2 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 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "TEMPSAT 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1965-065E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:05:26.881152",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.33602048,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00688019,
  "INCLINATION": 90.0125,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 212.6731,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 202.8813,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 310.6677,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 1512,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 97924,
  "BSTAR": 0.000096222784,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 5.7e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}