- Navigation satellite
- TSIKADA
- NORAD 23463
- 1995-002A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Arctic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Kara Sea
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Tsikada 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 Tsikada, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Tsikada?
At 4:54:28 PM UTC Tsikada was over the Pacific Ocean (10.6° N, 146.2° E), 982 km up, moving at 7.37 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Tsikada?
A navigation satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 24, 1995.
Can I see Tsikada?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tsikada, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- Russian Navy
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- PO Polyot
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 800 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
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 10.6° N, 146.2° E
- Altitude
- 982 km
- Speed
- 7.37 km/s (26,518 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:03 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 82.9°
- Orbital period
- 104.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.73
- This orbit
- 957 to 1,017 km
- In shadow
- 29 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,380 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 3:54 AM, 13 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:54 AM, 13 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tsikada, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Tsikada 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
Tsikada shares its launch, 1995-002, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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, 3:54 AM, 13 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TSIKADA",
"OBJECT_ID": "1995-002A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:54:00.844992",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.7274319,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00403299,
"INCLINATION": 82.9251,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 269.4261,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 99.1892,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 272.6679,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 23463,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 59206,
"BSTAR": 0.000052512143,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.4e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}