- Military
- STRV 1C
- NORAD 26610
- 2000-072C
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches STRV 1c 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 STRV 1c, 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 Sri Lanka LIVE
Where is STRV 1c?
At 6:21:10 PM UTC STRV 1c was over Sri Lanka (7.1° N, 81.7° E), 36,699 km up, moving at 1.83 km/s and in sunlight.
What is STRV 1c?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Nov 16, 2000.
Can I see STRV 1c?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for STRV 1c, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Defense Evaluation and Research Agency
- State
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Built by
- Defense Evaluation and Research Agency
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 95 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, 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
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 7.1° N, 81.7° E
- Altitude
- 36,699 km
- Speed
- 1.83 km/s (6,588 km/h)
- Course
- west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 7.1°
- Orbital period
- 707.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.04
- This orbit
- 595 to 39,259 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,960 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 2:46 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:46 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for STRV 1c, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to STRV 1c 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
STRV 1c shares its launch, 2000-072, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| INTELSAT 1R (PAS 1R) | Communications satellite |
| AMSAT OSCAR 40 | Communications satellite |
| STRV 1D | Satellite |
| ARIANE 5 R/B | Rocket body |
| ARIANE 5 DEB (SYLDA) | Debris |
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, 2:46 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "STRV 1C",
"OBJECT_ID": "2000-072C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:46:38.075808",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.03552205,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.73492054,
"INCLINATION": 7.1496,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 325.2672,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 271.4809,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 13.4075,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 26610,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 19302,
"BSTAR": 0.0036845905,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000175,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}