- Navigation satellite
- Military
- NOVA 3
- NORAD 15362
- 1984-110A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the United States of America
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches NNS 30500-33 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 NNS 30500-33, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the People's Republic of China LIVE
Where is NNS 30500-33?
At 6:24:11 PM UTC NNS 30500-33 was over the People's Republic of China (32.1° N, 120.2° E), 1,183 km up, moving at 7.26 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is NNS 30500-33?
A navigation satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 12, 1984.
Can I see NNS 30500-33?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for NNS 30500-33, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- USN Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- RCA Astro Electronics (Astro Space)
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 173 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, what it is for, 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
- 6:24 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:24 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 32.1° N, 120.2° E
- Altitude
- 1,183 km
- Speed
- 7.26 km/s (26,143 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:35 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 90.1°
- Orbital period
- 108.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.23
- This orbit
- 1,145 to 1,195 km
- In shadow
- 28 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,650 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:29 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:29 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for NNS 30500-33, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to NNS 30500-33 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:29 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "NOVA 3",
"OBJECT_ID": "1984-110A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:29:17.449728",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.23081301,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00327932,
"INCLINATION": 90.1161,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 84.2361,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 136.366,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 251.0956,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 15362,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 3069,
"BSTAR": 0.000081531917,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 4.3e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}