POGS

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/20560

  • USA 56
  • NORAD 20560
  • 1990-031A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where POGS is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over Russia

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches POGS 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 POGS, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is POGS?

At 6:21:32 PM UTC POGS was over the Indian Ocean (57.8° S, 115.4° E), 685 km up, moving at 7.5 km/s and in sunlight.

What is POGS?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 11, 1990.

Can I see POGS?

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

General

Operator
US Air Force Space Systems Division
State
United States of America
Built by
Defense Systems Inc
Launched
Mass
60 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
57.8° S, 115.4° E
Altitude
685 km
Speed
7.5 km/s (26,996 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 7:21 PM UTC
Inclination
89.9°
Orbital period
97.4 minutes
Orbits per day
14.78
This orbit
589 to 677 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,910 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:40 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:40 AM, 15 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to POGS 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

POGS shares its launch, 1990-031, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
USA 57Satellite
USA 58Satellite
ATLAS 28E R/BRocket body
ATLAS 28E DEBDebris
ATLAS 28E DEBDebris
ATLAS 28E DEBDebris
ATLAS 28E 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, 2:40 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "USA 56",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1990-031A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:40:02.480448",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.77853342,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00631111,
  "INCLINATION": 89.8633,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 258.5208,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 113.5065,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 247.2806,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 20560,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 13395,
  "BSTAR": 0.00012583147,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000953,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}