- Navigation satellite
- Military
- NAVSTAR 11 (USA 10)
- NORAD 16129
- 1985-093A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the United States of America
Orbit ends over Kazakhstan
In view from you
Nobody watches GPS 11 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 GPS 11, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is GPS 11?
At 6:20:06 PM UTC GPS 11 was over the Atlantic Ocean (58.1° S, 9.8° W), 22,165 km up, moving at 3.67 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GPS 11?
A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Oct 9, 1985.
Can I see GPS 11?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GPS 11, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Rockwell/Seal Beach
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 431 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 58.1° S, 9.8° W
- Altitude
- 22,165 km
- Speed
- 3.67 km/s (13,226 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 63.6°
- Orbital period
- 760.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.89
- This orbit
- 20,260 to 22,178 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,480 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 4, 2026, 4:14 AM, 4 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 4, 2026, 4:14 AM, 4 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GPS 11, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GPS 11 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
GPS 11 shares its launch, 1985-093, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ATLAS 55E R/B | Rocket body |
| ATLAS 55E 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 4, 2026, 4:14 AM, 4 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "NAVSTAR 11 (USA 10)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1985-093A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-04T04:14:07.139328",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.89368603,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.03474716,
"INCLINATION": 63.6479,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 80.7556,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 56.5948,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 308.2098,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 16129,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 23195,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1.9e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}