IMAGE

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/26113

  • NORAD 26113
  • 2000-017A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where IMAGE is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Ross Sea

Orbit ends over Antarctica

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches IMAGE 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 IMAGE, 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 Chukchi Sea LIVE

Where is IMAGE?

At 5:39:39 PM UTC IMAGE was over the Chukchi Sea (71.3° N, 163° W), 40,047 km up, moving at 1.95 km/s and in sunlight.

What is IMAGE?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Mar 25, 2000.

Can I see IMAGE?

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

General

Operator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
State
United States of America
Built by
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Sunnyvale
Launched
Mass
494 kg
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
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
71.3° N, 163° W
Altitude
40,047 km
Speed
1.95 km/s (7,024 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
94.3°
Orbital period
853.7 minutes
Orbits per day
1.69
This orbit
1,528 to 45,333 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 8,030 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 5, 2026, 11:28 PM, 2 days old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 5, 2026, 11:28 PM, 2 days old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to IMAGE 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

IMAGE shares its launch, 2000-017, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
DELTA 2 R/B(2)Rocket 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 5, 2026, 11:28 PM, 2 days old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "IMAGE",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2000-017A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-05T23:28:26.271840",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.68668622,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.73475683,
  "INCLINATION": 94.2897,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 317.0984,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 272.0809,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 13.5382,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 26113,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 16389,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.1e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}