Globalstar M043

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/25874

  • Communications satellite
  • GLOBALSTAR M043
  • NORAD 25874
  • 1999-041C
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Globalstar M043 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over Russia

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Globalstar M043 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 Globalstar M043, 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Kazakhstan LIVE

Where is Globalstar M043?

At 6:51:59 PM UTC Globalstar M043 was over Kazakhstan (51.2° N, 79.4° E), 2,027 km up, moving at 6.9 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Globalstar M043?

A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jul 25, 1999.

Can I see Globalstar M043?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Globalstar M043, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Globalstar LP
State
United States of America
Built by
SS/Loral
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
450 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Medium Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, 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
51.2° N, 79.4° E
Altitude
2,027 km
Speed
6.9 km/s (24,829 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:01 PM UTC
Inclination
51.9°
Orbital period
127.9 minutes
Orbits per day
11.26
This orbit
2,021 to 2,043 km
In shadow
28 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 3,520 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:22 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:22 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Globalstar M043, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Globalstar M043 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

Globalstar M043 shares its launch, 1999-041, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
GLOBALSTAR M048Communications satellite
GLOBALSTAR M026Communications satellite
GLOBALSTAR M028Communications satellite
DELTA 2 R/BRocket 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Globalstar M0432,021 to 2,043 km128 minutes450 kg1999
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 8:22 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "GLOBALSTAR M043",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1999-041C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T08:22:00.077664",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 11.25702133,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00134665,
  "INCLINATION": 51.9425,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 337.5722,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 96.115,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 277.3653,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 25874,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18010,
  "BSTAR": 0.00049066173,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -5.2e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}