- Military
- USA 65
- NORAD 20929
- 1990-095A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Arabian Sea
Orbit ends over Yemen
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches DSP F15 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 DSP F15, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Somalia LIVE
Where is DSP F15?
At 6:20:35 PM UTC DSP F15 was over Somalia (6.4° N, 47° E), 36,314 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.
What is DSP F15?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Nov 13, 1990.
Can I see DSP F15?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for DSP F15, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Systems Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- TRW Inc.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.4 t
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 6.4° N, 47° E
- Altitude
- 36,314 km
- Speed
- 3.06 km/s (11,002 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 8:10 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 13.9°
- Orbital period
- 1,463.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.98
- This orbit
- 36,313 to 36,331 km
- In shadow
- 60 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,960 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:21 AM, 13 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:21 AM, 13 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for DSP F15, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to DSP F15 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
DSP F15 shares its launch, 1990-095, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| IUS R/B(2) | Rocket body |
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, 4:21 AM, 13 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "USA 65",
"OBJECT_ID": "1990-095A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:21:48.791808",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.98396471,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021251,
"INCLINATION": 13.9159,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 343.0459,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 76.6818,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 104.7706,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 20929,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2688,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -2.2e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}