Magion-5

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  • MAGION 5
  • NORAD 24292
  • 1996-050B
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Magion-5 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Magion-5 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 Magion-5, 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 Hudson Bay LIVE

Where is Magion-5?

At 6:21:38 PM UTC Magion-5 was over Hudson Bay (60.3° N, 94.5° W), 18,712 km up, moving at 2.73 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Magion-5?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Aug 29, 1996.

Can I see Magion-5?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Magion-5, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Czech Republic
State
Czech Republic
Built by
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Launched
Mass
68 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
60.3° N, 94.5° W
Altitude
18,712 km
Speed
2.73 km/s (9,814 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
62.7°
Orbital period
347.2 minutes
Orbits per day
4.15
This orbit
815 to 19,154 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,280 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 6, 2026, 11:23 AM, 2 days old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 11:23 AM, 2 days old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Magion-5, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Magion-5 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

Magion-5 shares its launch, 1996-050, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
INTERBALL AURORASatellite
SL-6 R/B(2)Rocket 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 6, 2026, 11:23 AM, 2 days old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "MAGION 5",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1996-050B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-06T11:23:12.473088",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 4.14735705,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.5603786,
  "INCLINATION": 62.6775,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 114.6768,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 272.3912,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 28.0495,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 24292,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 45712,
  "BSTAR": 0.00014159,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 7.3e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}