YES

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Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/25025

  • TEAMSAT
  • NORAD 25025
  • 1997-066C
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where YES 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 Java Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches YES 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 YES, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is YES?

At 5:41:05 PM UTC YES was over the Atlantic Ocean (2.4° S, 34.7° W), 7,184 km up, moving at 6.23 km/s and in sunlight.

What is YES?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Oct 30, 1997.

Can I see YES?

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

General

Operator
European Space Agency
State
European Space Agency
Built by
ESTEC
Launched
Mass
175 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
2.4° S, 34.7° W
Altitude
7,184 km
Speed
6.23 km/s (22,424 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 11:16 PM UTC
Inclination
7.8°
Orbital period
467.5 minutes
Orbits per day
3.08
This orbit
586 to 26,573 km
In shadow
57 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 5,830 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:12 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:12 AM, 12 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to YES 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

YES shares its launch, 1997-066, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
MAQSAT HSatellite
MAQSAT BSatellite
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, 5:12 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "TEAMSAT",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1997-066C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:12:14.796288",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 3.08028659,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.65105368,
  "INCLINATION": 7.7986,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 296.474,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 237.9522,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 171.5619,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 25025,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 13964,
  "BSTAR": -0.00033008449,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -8.2e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}