EKA-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/22561

  • Military
  • START 1
  • NORAD 22561
  • 1993-014A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where EKA-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches EKA-1 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 EKA-1, 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 Antarctica LIVE

Where is EKA-1?

At 6:36:17 PM UTC EKA-1 was over Antarctica (75.8° S, 84.7° E), 779 km up, moving at 7.5 km/s and in sunlight.

What is EKA-1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 25, 1993.

Can I see EKA-1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for EKA-1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Russian Military Space Forces
State
Russian Federation
Built by
Complex-MIT, Moscow Inst of Thermal Tech.
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
260 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

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
6:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
75.8° S, 84.7° E
Altitude
779 km
Speed
7.5 km/s (26,989 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
75.8°
Orbital period
101.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.23
This orbit
675 to 953 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,070 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:09 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:09 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for EKA-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to EKA-1 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

EKA-1 shares its launch, 1993-014, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SL-18 R/BRocket body
SL-18 DEBDebris
SL-18 DEBDebris
SL-18 DEBDebris
START 1 DEBDebris
START 1 DEBDebris
SL-18 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, 2:09 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "START 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1993-014A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:09:23.970528",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.22616826,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.01929325,
  "INCLINATION": 75.7595,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 145.3031,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 207.6672,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 151.4116,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 22561,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 74432,
  "BSTAR": 0.00006619184,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000164,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}