- Communications satellite
- OMNI-M1
- NORAD 26857
- 2001-026A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Sea of Okhotsk
Orbit ends over Kazakhstan
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches ICO F2 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 ICO F2, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is ICO F2?
At 10:40:40 AM UTC ICO F2 was over the Atlantic Ocean (16.7° S, 14.5° W), 10,612 km up, moving at 4.84 km/s and in sunlight.
What is ICO F2?
A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jun 19, 2001.
Can I see ICO F2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for ICO F2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Ltd
- State
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Built by
- Boeing Satellite Development Center, El Segundo
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.7 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
- 10:40 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 10:40 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 16.7° S, 14.5° W
- Altitude
- 10,612 km
- Speed
- 4.84 km/s (17,435 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight until 1:57 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 44.8°
- Orbital period
- 367 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 3.92
- This orbit
- 10,574 to 10,629 km
- In shadow
- 16 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 6,480 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 10:23 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:23 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for ICO F2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to ICO F2 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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
ICO F2 shares its launch, 2001-026, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ATLAS 2AS CENTAUR R/B | 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICO F2 | 10,574 to 10,629 km | 367 minutes | about 2.7 t | 2001 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| 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 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 10:23 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OMNI-M1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2001-026A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:23:41.654400",
"MEAN_MOTION": 3.92403232,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00163786,
"INCLINATION": 44.7949,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 212.1342,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 80.5365,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 279.7026,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 26857,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 21121,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -2e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}