- OPAL
- NORAD 26063
- 2000-004C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Brazil
Orbit ends over Bolivia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches OPAL-OSCAR-38 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 OPAL-OSCAR-38, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is OPAL-OSCAR-38?
At 6:21:08 PM UTC OPAL-OSCAR-38 was over the Atlantic Ocean (4.4° N, 47.7° W), 743 km up, moving at 7.5 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OPAL-OSCAR-38?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 27, 2000.
Can I see OPAL-OSCAR-38?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPAL-OSCAR-38, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Stanford University
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Stanford University
- Launched
- Mass
- 13 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 4.4° N, 47.7° W
- Altitude
- 743 km
- Speed
- 7.5 km/s (26,986 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:54 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 100.2°
- Orbital period
- 100.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.38
- This orbit
- 737 to 788 km
- In shadow
- 23 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,020 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 3:18 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:18 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPAL-OSCAR-38, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OPAL-OSCAR-38 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
OPAL-OSCAR-38 shares its launch, 2000-004, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| JAWSAT | Satellite |
| FALCONSAT | Satellite |
| ASUSAT | Communications satellite |
| MINOTAUR R/B | Rocket body |
| MINOTAUR DEB | Debris |
| PICOSAT 1&2 (TETHERED) | Satellite |
| PICOSAT 3 | Satellite |
| PICOSAT 4 | Satellite |
| PICOSAT 5 | Communications satellite |
| PICOSAT 6 | Communications satellite |
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, 3:18 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPAL",
"OBJECT_ID": "2000-004C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:18:10.428480",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.38008131,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00356992,
"INCLINATION": 100.2089,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 275.6124,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 349.3113,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 10.7306,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 26063,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 40397,
"BSTAR": 0.000076867469,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000175,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}