SURFSAT

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/23711

  • NORAD 23711
  • 1995-059B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SURFSAT 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

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches SURFSAT 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 SURFSAT, 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 France LIVE

Where is SURFSAT?

At 6:20:29 PM UTC SURFSAT was over France (44.2° N, 6.7° E), 1,174 km up, moving at 7.29 km/s and in sunlight.

What is SURFSAT?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 4, 1995.

Can I see SURFSAT?

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

General

Launched
Mass
about 2.7 t
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the launch day and the mass. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
44.2° N, 6.7° E
Altitude
1,174 km
Speed
7.29 km/s (26,251 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
100.5°
Orbital period
109.7 minutes
Orbits per day
13.13
This orbit
930 to 1,489 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,640 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 9:00 PM, 21 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 9:00 PM, 21 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to SURFSAT 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

SURFSAT shares its launch, 1995-059, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
RADARSATEarth-watching satellite

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 7, 2026, 9:00 PM, 21 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SURFSAT",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1995-059B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T21:00:29.298240",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.12861526,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.03680827,
  "INCLINATION": 100.483,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 339.2091,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 130.06,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 40.0119,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 23711,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 48576,
  "BSTAR": 0.00011307702,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1.5e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}