STRV 1A

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/23125

  • Military
  • NORAD 23125
  • 1994-034B
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where STRV 1A is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches STRV 1A 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 STRV 1A, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is STRV 1A?

At 6:44:44 PM UTC STRV 1A was over the Atlantic Ocean (0.1° N, 12.1° W), 6,667 km up, moving at 6.29 km/s and in sunlight.

What is STRV 1A?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Jun 17, 1994.

Can I see STRV 1A?

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

General

Operator
Defense Research Agency
State
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Built by
Defense Research Agency
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
50 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, 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
6:44 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:44 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
0.1° N, 12.1° W
Altitude
6,667 km
Speed
6.29 km/s (22,630 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
7.3°
Orbital period
415.9 minutes
Orbits per day
3.46
This orbit
242 to 23,923 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 5,700 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:00 AM, 14 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:00 AM, 14 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to STRV 1A 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

STRV 1A shares its launch, 1994-034, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
INTELSAT 702Communications satellite
ARIANE 44LP+ 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, 4:00 AM, 14 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STRV 1A",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1994-034B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:00:30.624768",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 3.46264689,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.64137355,
  "INCLINATION": 7.3168,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 138.4772,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 72.8631,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 344.7314,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 23125,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 33916,
  "BSTAR": 0.0016384134,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00013841,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}