OV3-3

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/2389

  • NORAD 2389
  • 1966-070A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where OV3-3 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Tajikistan

Orbit ends over Turkey

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches OV3-3 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 OV3-3, 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 Greenland Sea LIVE

Where is OV3-3?

At 6:51:55 PM UTC OV3-3 was over the Greenland Sea (79.4° N, 2.1° W), 532 km up, moving at 7.89 km/s and in sunlight.

What is OV3-3?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 4, 1966.

Can I see OV3-3?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OV3-3, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
US Air Force Office of Aerospace Research
State
United States of America
Built by
Space General Div, Aerojet-General Corp.
Launched
Mass
77 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:51 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:51 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
79.4° N, 2.1° W
Altitude
532 km
Speed
7.89 km/s (28,386 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:52 PM UTC
Inclination
81.3°
Orbital period
106.8 minutes
Orbits per day
13.48
This orbit
331 to 1,822 km
In shadow
31 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,630 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:55 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:55 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for OV3-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to OV3-3 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

OV3-3 shares its launch, 1966-070, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SCOUT B DEBDebris

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, 5:55 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OV3-3",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1966-070A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:55:11.501760",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.48119828,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.10004193,
  "INCLINATION": 81.3263,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 203.5848,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 142.8848,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 224.5951,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 2389,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 61836,
  "BSTAR": 0.000635334,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00014451,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}