- Military
- OPS 9381 (GGTS)
- NORAD 2207
- 1966-053A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches GGTS 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 GGTS, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is GGTS?
At 6:51:59 PM UTC GGTS was over the Pacific Ocean (1.9° N, 121.6° W), 33,707 km up, moving at 3.16 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GGTS?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Jun 16, 1966.
Can I see GGTS?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GGTS, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Systems Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- GE Missiles and Space Vehicles Division (MSVD)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 47 kg
- 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
- 6:51 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:51 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 1.9° N, 121.6° W
- Altitude
- 33,707 km
- Speed
- 3.16 km/s (11,358 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 8.9°
- Orbital period
- 1,333.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.08
- This orbit
- 33,627 to 33,870 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,890 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:46 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:46 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GGTS, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GGTS 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
GGTS shares its launch, 1966-053, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OPS 9311 (IDSCS 1) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9312 (IDSCS 2) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9313 (IDSCS 3) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9314 (IDSCS 4) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9315 (IDSCS 5) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9316 (IDSCS 6) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9317 (IDSCS 7) | Communications satellite |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B | 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, 6:46 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 9381 (GGTS)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1966-053A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:46:09.997824",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.08010517,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0030305,
"INCLINATION": 8.909,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 42.0263,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 238.4333,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 93.1281,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 2207,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 23751,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.000001,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}