- Earth-watching satellite
- BADR B
- NORAD 27003
- 2001-056C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Poland
Orbit ends over the Irish Sea
In view from you
Nobody watches Badr B 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 Badr B, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
- Close approach
On Friday, Nov 6 at 10:43 PM UTC, a fragment of Cosmos 2251 (NORAD 35583) was to pass within 83 m of BADR B (NORAD 27003). The chance was about 1 in 3,000.
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Badr B?
At 6:20:31 PM UTC Badr B was over the Pacific Ocean (35.1° N, 161.2° E), 1,003 km up, moving at 7.35 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Badr B?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 10, 2001.
Can I see Badr B?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Badr B, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
- State
- Pakistan, Islamic Republic of
- Built by
- Space Innovations Ltd
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 69 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Low 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 35.1° N, 161.2° E
- Altitude
- 1,003 km
- Speed
- 7.35 km/s (26,474 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 99.8°
- Orbital period
- 105.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.7
- This orbit
- 980 to 1,011 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,410 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 10:37 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:37 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Badr B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- 1 reported. No close approach to Badr B is reported for the next three 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
Badr B shares its launch, 2001-056, with 13 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| METEOR 3M | Earth-watching satellite |
| KOMPASS | Satellite |
| MAROC TUBSAT | Earth-watching satellite |
| REFLECTOR | Satellite |
| SL-16 R/B | Rocket body |
| SL-16 DEB | Debris |
| SL-16 DEB | Debris |
| SL-16 DEB | Debris |
| SL-16 DEB | Debris |
| SL-16 DEB | Debris |
| SL-16 DEB | Debris |
| SL-16 DEB | Debris |
| SL-16 DEB | 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badr B | 980 to 1,011 km | 105 minutes | 69 kg | 2001 |
| Sentinel-5P | 826 to 828 km | 101 minutes | 820 kg | 2017 |
| Suomi NPP | 825 to 829 km | 101 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2011 |
| MetOp-SG A1 | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4 t | 2025 |
| Metop-B | 818 to 823 km | 101 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2012 |
| Metop-C | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2018 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 10:37 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "BADR B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2001-056C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T10:37:44.953824",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.70414852,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00208165,
"INCLINATION": 99.8085,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 129.8402,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 128.6547,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 231.6465,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27003,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 24556,
"BSTAR": 0.000031677264,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -1.9e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}