- Earth-watching satellite
- LAGEOS 2
- NORAD 22195
- 1992-070B
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Lageos 2 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 Lageos 2, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Lageos 2?
At 5:39:58 PM UTC Lageos 2 was over the Pacific Ocean (23.4° N, 118.4° W), 5,911 km up, moving at 5.67 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Lageos 2?
A satellite that watches the Earth in medium Earth orbit, in space since Oct 22, 1992.
Can I see Lageos 2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Lageos 2, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Italian Space Agency
- State
- Italian Republic
- Built by
- Alenia Spazio
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 405 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
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
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 23.4° N, 118.4° W
- Altitude
- 5,911 km
- Speed
- 5.67 km/s (20,401 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 52.6°
- Orbital period
- 222.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 6.47
- This orbit
- 5,616 to 5,952 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 5,480 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 3:40 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 3:40 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Lageos 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Lageos 2 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
Lageos 2 shares its launch, 1992-070, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| LAGEOS 2 AKM (MAGE 1S) | 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lageos 2 | 5,616 to 5,952 km | 222 minutes | 405 kg | 1992 |
| Sentinel-6MF | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2020 |
| Sentinel-6B | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2025 |
| Sentinel-5P | 826 to 828 km | 101 minutes | 820 kg | 2017 |
| Suomi NPP | 825 to 829 km | 101 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2011 |
| MetOp-SG A1 | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4 t | 2025 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 3:40 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "LAGEOS 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "1992-070B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T15:40:35.543424",
"MEAN_MOTION": 6.47294064,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.01383044,
"INCLINATION": 52.639,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 175.9852,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 250.0207,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 134.9795,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 22195,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 80471,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -9e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}