- Earth-watching satellite
- IKONOS 2
- NORAD 25919
- 1999-051A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Greenland Sea
Orbit ends over Greenland
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Ikonos 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 Ikonos, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Canada LIVE
Where is Ikonos?
At 8:50:31 AM UTC Ikonos was over Canada (62.5° N, 137.3° W), 580 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Ikonos?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 24, 1999.
Can I see Ikonos?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Ikonos, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Space Imaging Inc
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Sunnyvale
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 726 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Low 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
- 8:50 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 8:50 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 62.5° N, 137.3° W
- Altitude
- 580 km
- Speed
- 7.58 km/s (27,284 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 9:19 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- Orbital period
- 96.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.98
- This orbit
- 565 to 576 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,720 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 10:39 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:39 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Ikonos, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Ikonos has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ikonos | 565 to 576 km | 96 minutes | 726 kg | 1999 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 10:39 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "IKONOS 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "1999-051A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:39:13.684032",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.97757877,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0007934,
"INCLINATION": 98.1166,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 206.546,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 85.1925,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 275.0201,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 25919,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 46043,
"BSTAR": 0.00019026,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000217,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}