- Military
- OPS 0856
- NORAD 2403
- 1966-077A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches FTV 1352 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 FTV 1352, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the East China Sea LIVE
Where is FTV 1352?
At 6:51:56 PM UTC FTV 1352 was over the East China Sea (31.8° N, 127.4° E), 3,695 km up, moving at 6.29 km/s and in sunlight.
What is FTV 1352?
A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Aug 19, 1966.
Can I see FTV 1352?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for FTV 1352, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Systems Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth 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
- 6:51 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:51 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 31.8° N, 127.4° E
- Altitude
- 3,695 km
- Speed
- 6.29 km/s (22,651 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 90.3°
- Orbital period
- 167.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 8.6
- This orbit
- 3,678 to 3,690 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 4,610 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 10:10 PM, 20 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:10 PM, 20 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for FTV 1352, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to FTV 1352 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
FTV 1352 shares its launch, 1966-077, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SECOR 7 (EGRS 7) | Earth-watching satellite |
| ERS 15 | Satellite |
| OPS 0856 DEB | Debris |
| OPS 0856 DEB | Debris |
| OPS 0856 DEB | Debris |
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, 10:10 PM, 20 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 0856",
"OBJECT_ID": "1966-077A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:10:17.278176",
"MEAN_MOTION": 8.5984107,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00055969,
"INCLINATION": 90.3308,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 278.0983,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 302.5711,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 57.46,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 2403,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 53881,
"BSTAR": -0.011665569,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -2.2e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}