Falconsat-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/26064

  • FALCONSAT
  • NORAD 26064
  • 2000-004D
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Falconsat-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Caribbean Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Falconsat-1 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 Falconsat-1, 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

  2. Close approach

    On Friday, Nov 6 at 2:23 PM UTC, a fragment of NOAA 16 (NORAD 41270) was to pass within 262 m of Falconsat (NORAD 26064). The chance was about 1 in 3,000.

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Falconsat-1?

At 6:21:20 PM UTC Falconsat-1 was over the Atlantic Ocean (18° N, 57.8° W), 743 km up, moving at 7.5 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Falconsat-1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 27, 2000.

Can I see Falconsat-1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Falconsat-1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
United States Air Force Academy
State
United States of America
Built by
United States Air Force Academy
Launched
Mass
15 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
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
18° N, 57.8° W
Altitude
743 km
Speed
7.5 km/s (26,996 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 6:48 PM UTC
Inclination
100.2°
Orbital period
100.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.37
This orbit
738 to 791 km
In shadow
28 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,020 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 3:14 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:14 AM, 15 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Falconsat-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
1 reported. No close approach to Falconsat-1 is reported for the next three 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

Falconsat-1 shares its launch, 2000-004, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
JAWSATSatellite
OPALSatellite
ASUSATCommunications satellite
MINOTAUR R/BRocket body
MINOTAUR DEBDebris
PICOSAT 1&2 (TETHERED)Satellite
PICOSAT 3Satellite
PICOSAT 4Satellite
PICOSAT 5Communications satellite
PICOSAT 6Communications 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, 3:14 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "FALCONSAT",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2000-004D",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:14:07.453536",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.37309037,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00373071,
  "INCLINATION": 100.2047,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 268.112,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 12.8018,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 347.4102,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 26064,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 40344,
  "BSTAR": 0.000070081305,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000151,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}