Geotail

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/22049

  • GEOTAIL
  • NORAD 22049
  • 1992-044A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Geotail is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Geotail 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 Geotail, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Geotail?

At 5:36:46 PM UTC Geotail was over the Pacific Ocean (17° N, 172.4° W), 132,256 km up, moving at 1.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Geotail?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Jul 24, 1992.

Can I see Geotail?

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

General

Operator
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sci
State
Japan (Nippon), State of
Built by
Nippon Electric Corp., Space Div., Kamoi Works
Launched
Mass
about 1 t
Operating
Orbit class
Highly elliptical 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
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
17° N, 172.4° W
Altitude
132,256 km
Speed
1.61 km/s (5,807 km/h)
Course
west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
45.9°
Orbital period
7,473.9 minutes
Orbits per day
0.19
This orbit
48,808 to 191,689 km
In view from
Within 8,610 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 9, 2026, 5:26 PM, 0 seconds old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 5:26 PM, 0 seconds old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Geotail 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 9, 2026, 5:26 PM, 0 seconds old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "GEOTAIL",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1992-044A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-09T17:26:05.362080",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.19267156,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.56418236,
  "INCLINATION": 45.8549,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 336.7414,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 289.3924,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 358.9342,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 22049,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1603,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00001608,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}