Myojo

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/22979

  • VEP
  • NORAD 22979
  • 1994-007B
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Myojo is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Strait of Malacca

Orbit ends over Guyana

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Myojo 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 Myojo, 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 Myojo?

At 5:35:42 PM UTC Myojo was over the Pacific Ocean (4.6° S, 153.7° W), 35,352 km up, moving at 1.69 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Myojo?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Feb 3, 1994.

Can I see Myojo?

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

General

Operator
National Space Development Adminstration
State
Japan (Nippon), State of
Built by
National Space Development Adminstration
Launched
Mass
600 kg
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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
4.6° S, 153.7° W
Altitude
35,352 km
Speed
1.69 km/s (6,080 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 11:34 PM UTC
Inclination
29.1°
Orbital period
637.2 minutes
Orbits per day
2.26
This orbit
432 to 35,875 km
In shadow
29 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 7,930 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:18 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:18 AM, 15 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Myojo 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

Myojo shares its launch, 1994-007, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
H-2 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 2:18 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "VEP",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1994-007B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:18:37.975104",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 2.26002153,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.72239825,
  "INCLINATION": 29.1034,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 329.9373,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 14.6358,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 358.5427,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 22979,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 26955,
  "BSTAR": 0.00054864177,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 9.1e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}