Dumsat

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/26106

  • FREGAT RB/CLUSTER 2
  • NORAD 26106
  • 2000-015A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Dumsat is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Dumsat 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 Dumsat, 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 the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Dumsat?

At 5:41:01 PM UTC Dumsat was over the Indian Ocean (54.2° S, 76.9° E), 1,197 km up, moving at 8.9 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Dumsat?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Mar 20, 2000.

Can I see Dumsat?

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

General

Operator
Starsem
State
French Republic
Built by
Aerospatiale Matra Lanceurs
Launched
Mass
about 1.2 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
5:41 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:41 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
54.2° S, 76.9° E
Altitude
1,197 km
Speed
8.9 km/s (32,054 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 5:54 PM UTC
Inclination
65.1°
Orbital period
312.2 minutes
Orbits per day
4.61
This orbit
509 to 17,221 km
In shadow
14 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,670 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 10:53 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:53 AM, 1 day old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Dumsat 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

Dumsat shares its launch, 2000-015, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
FREGAT DEBDebris

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 7, 2026, 10:53 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "FREGAT RB/CLUSTER 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2000-015A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T10:53:27.462912",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 4.6126156,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.54817206,
  "INCLINATION": 65.1052,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 70.3476,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 255.8699,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 40.1273,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 26106,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 44481,
  "BSTAR": 0.00011009784,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 3.2e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}