Healthsat 2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/22826

  • Communications satellite
  • ITAMSAT
  • NORAD 22826
  • 1993-061D
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Healthsat 2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Gulf of Oman

Orbit ends over Egypt

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Healthsat 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 Healthsat 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

  2. Close approach

    On Tuesday, Oct 13 at 5:41 AM UTC, a fragment of CZ-6A (NORAD 55862) was to pass within 733 m of Itamsat (NORAD 22826). The chance was about 1 in 10,000.

  3. Close approach

    On Thursday, Oct 22 at 5:00 PM UTC, a fragment of CZ-6A (NORAD 61403) was to pass within 360 m of Itamsat (NORAD 22826). The chance was about 1 in 10,000.

Summary

Over Greenland LIVE

Where is Healthsat 2?

At 6:21:33 PM UTC Healthsat 2 was over Greenland (80.5° N, 58.4° W), 798 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Healthsat 2?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 26, 1993.

Can I see Healthsat 2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Healthsat 2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Satellife Inc
State
United States of America
Built by
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
50 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, 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
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
80.5° N, 58.4° W
Altitude
798 km
Speed
7.46 km/s (26,867 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 7:23 PM UTC
Inclination
98.7°
Orbital period
100.6 minutes
Orbits per day
14.31
This orbit
778 to 791 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,110 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:30 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:30 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Healthsat 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
2 reported. No close approach to Healthsat 2 is reported for the next three 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

Healthsat 2 shares its launch, 1993-061, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SPOT 3Earth-watching satellite
STELLAEarth-watching satellite
EYESAT ACommunications satellite
HEALTHSAT 1Communications satellite
KITSAT BCommunications satellite
POSAT 1Communications satellite
ARIANE 40 R/BRocket 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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Healthsat 2778 to 791 km101 minutes50 kg1993
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:30 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ITAMSAT",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1993-061D",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:30:04.980960",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.31402402,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00092828,
  "INCLINATION": 98.6674,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 19.3596,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 27.6641,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 332.5034,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 22826,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 72791,
  "BSTAR": 0.000065502263,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000129,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}