Maqsat-3

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/25503

  • MAQSAT/ARIANE 5
  • NORAD 25503
  • 1998-059A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Maqsat-3 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Maqsat-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 Maqsat-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 Venezuela LIVE

Where is Maqsat-3?

At 5:36:03 PM UTC Maqsat-3 was over Venezuela (4.2° N, 65° W), 26,089 km up, moving at 2.89 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Maqsat-3?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Oct 21, 1998.

Can I see Maqsat-3?

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

General

Operator
European Space Agency
State
European Space Agency
Built by
Kayser-Threde GmbH
Launched
Mass
about 2.7 t
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
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
4.2° N, 65° W
Altitude
26,089 km
Speed
2.89 km/s (10,415 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 1:27 AM UTC
Inclination
6.6°
Orbital period
641.2 minutes
Orbits per day
2.25
This orbit
956 to 35,561 km
In shadow
26 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 7,660 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:19 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:19 AM, 12 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Maqsat-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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:19 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "MAQSAT/ARIANE 5",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1998-059A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:19:55.559712",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 2.24576799,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.70230549,
  "INCLINATION": 6.6378,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 207.6065,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 248.1833,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 27.6634,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 25503,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 23020,
  "BSTAR": 0.0030715107,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.7e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}