Eutelsat I F-5

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/19331

  • Communications satellite
  • EUTE 1-F5 (ECS 5)
  • NORAD 19331
  • 1988-063B
  • Inclined geosynchronous

Current orbit

Where Eutelsat I F-5 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Indonesia

Orbit ends over Indonesia

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Eutelsat I F-5 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 Eutelsat I F-5, 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 South China Sea LIVE

Where is Eutelsat I F-5?

At 6:35:35 PM UTC Eutelsat I F-5 was over the South China Sea (14.4° N, 114.2° E), 36,389 km up, moving at 3.05 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Eutelsat I F-5?

A communications satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Jul 21, 1988.

Can I see Eutelsat I F-5?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Eutelsat I F-5, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
European Telecommunications Satellite Organization
State
European Telecommunications Satellite Organization
Built by
British Aerospace
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
662 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
6:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
14.4° N, 114.2° E
Altitude
36,389 km
Speed
3.05 km/s (10,991 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 4:10 PM UTC
Inclination
14.5°
Orbital period
1,466.9 minutes
Orbits per day
0.98
This orbit
36,344 to 36,433 km
In shadow
61 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 7,960 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 12:58 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 12:58 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Eutelsat I F-5, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Eutelsat I F-5 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

Eutelsat I F-5 shares its launch, 1988-063, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
INSAT 1CCommunications satellite
ARIANE 3 DEBDebris
ARIANE 3 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Eutelsat I F-536,344 to 36,433 km1,467 minutes662 kg1988
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, 12:58 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "EUTE 1-F5 (ECS 5)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1988-063B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T12:58:23.533824",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.98165656,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00104009,
  "INCLINATION": 14.4788,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 344.9338,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 188.3806,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 191.4909,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 19331,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 11575,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000157,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}