- MAQSAT H
- NORAD 25023
- 1997-066A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches TEAMSAT 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 TEAMSAT, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is TEAMSAT?
At 5:41:10 PM UTC TEAMSAT was over the Indian Ocean (4.3° N, 88.3° E), 26,097 km up, moving at 2.11 km/s and in sunlight.
What is TEAMSAT?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Oct 30, 1997.
Can I see TEAMSAT?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for TEAMSAT, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- State
- European Space Agency
- Built by
- ESTEC
- Launched
- Mass
- 350 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
- 5:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 4.3° N, 88.3° E
- Altitude
- 26,097 km
- Speed
- 2.11 km/s (7,589 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 7.7°
- Orbital period
- 463 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 3.11
- This orbit
- 548 to 26,355 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,660 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:21 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:21 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for TEAMSAT, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to TEAMSAT 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
TEAMSAT shares its launch, 1997-066, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| MAQSAT B | Satellite |
| TEAMSAT | Satellite |
| ARIANE 5 DEB (SPELTRA) | 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 8, 2026, 6:21 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "MAQSAT H",
"OBJECT_ID": "1997-066A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:21:56.811168",
"MEAN_MOTION": 3.11021278,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.65072983,
"INCLINATION": 7.7421,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 254.961,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 320.7501,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 30.9519,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 25023,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 32839,
"BSTAR": 0.0021798018,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000288,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}