- Communications satellite
- NORAD 26824
- 2001-024A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches INTELSAT 901 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 INTELSAT 901, 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
- Rendezvous
Luch came up beside INTELSAT 901, Jun 22, 2015 to Sep 25, 2015, as public sources state. Its sources
- Rendezvous
MEV-1 came up beside INTELSAT 901, Feb 25, 2020 to Apr 9, 2025, as public sources state. Its sources
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is INTELSAT 901?
At 5:37:19 PM UTC INTELSAT 901 was over the Pacific Ocean (0.4° N, 144.2° E), 36,199 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.
What is INTELSAT 901?
A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jun 9, 2001.
Can I see INTELSAT 901?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for INTELSAT 901, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- INTELSAT
- State
- International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
- Built by
- SS/Loral
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 4.7 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 0.4° N, 144.2° E
- Altitude
- 36,199 km
- Speed
- 3.06 km/s (11,016 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 1.6°
- Orbital period
- 1,457.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 36,196 to 36,202 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:14 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:14 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for INTELSAT 901, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to INTELSAT 901 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INTELSAT 901 | 36,196 to 36,202 km | 1,457 minutes | about 4.7 t | 2001 |
| 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 8, 2026, 8:14 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "INTELSAT 901",
"OBJECT_ID": "2001-024A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:14:01.967712",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.98821992,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00007338,
"INCLINATION": 1.632,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 82.5515,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 128.5538,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 106.2294,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 26824,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2434,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000254,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}