- Communications satellite
- Military
- OPS 9327 (IDSCS 14)
- NORAD 2654
- 1967-003G
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over South Sudan
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches OPS 9327 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 OPS 9327, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is OPS 9327?
At 6:52:10 PM UTC OPS 9327 was over the Indian Ocean (3.4° S, 50.8° E), 33,827 km up, moving at 3.15 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OPS 9327?
A communications satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Jan 18, 1967.
Can I see OPS 9327?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPS 9327, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space Systems Division
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Philco-Ford WDL
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 45 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 3.4° S, 50.8° E
- Altitude
- 33,827 km
- Speed
- 3.15 km/s (11,340 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 8.4°
- Orbital period
- 1,339.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.08
- This orbit
- 33,651 to 34,095 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,900 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 6, 2026, 11:03 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 11:03 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPS 9327, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OPS 9327 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
OPS 9327 shares its launch, 1967-003, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OPS 9321 (IDSCS 8) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9322 (IDSCS 9) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9323 (IDSCS 10) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9324 (IDSCS 11) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9325 (IDSCS 12) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9326 (IDSCS 13) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9328 (IDSCS 15) | 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPS 9327 | 33,651 to 34,095 km | 1,339 minutes | 45 kg | 1967 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
| Hotbird 13F | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.5 t | 2022 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 6, 2026, 11:03 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 9327 (IDSCS 14)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1967-003G",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-06T23:03:27.281952",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.07510701,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00550841,
"INCLINATION": 8.4318,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 45.6888,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 54.8899,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 295.0947,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 2654,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 14100,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -6.3e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}