- Space telescope
- INTEGRAL
- NORAD 27540
- 2002-048A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Weddell Sea
Orbit ends over Antarctica
In view from you
Nobody watches Integral 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 Integral, 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 far too faint for the naked eye, and catching it would take a telescope driven to follow a point crossing the sky in minutes. What is worth looking at is what it sends back.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE
Where is Integral?
At 4:41:23 PM UTC Integral was over the Arctic Ocean (83.2° N, 150.2° W), 97,377 km up, moving at 1.67 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Integral?
A space telescope in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Oct 17, 2002.
Can I see Integral?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Integral, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is what it sees, which its operator publishes.
General
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- State
- European Space Agency
- Built by
- Alenia Spazio
- What it is
- Space telescope
- Launched
- Mass
- about 4 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical 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
- 4:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 83.2° N, 150.2° W
- Altitude
- 97,377 km
- Speed
- 1.67 km/s (5,994 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 88.5°
- Orbital period
- 3,833.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.38
- This orbit
- 3,542 to 145,965 km
- In view from
- Within 8,510 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Integral, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Integral 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integral | 3,542 to 145,965 km | 3,833 minutes | about 4 t | 2002 |
| Chandra | 12,186 to 136,630 km | 3,809 minutes | about 4.8 t | 1999 |
| XMM-Newton | 29,443 to 91,682 km | 2,873 minutes | about 3.8 t | 1999 |
| Cheops | 679 to 694 km | 98 minutes | 280 kg | 2019 |
| Fermi | 488 to 498 km | 94 minutes | about 4.3 t | 2008 |
| Hubble | 465 to 480 km | 94 minutes | about 12.2 t | 1990 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "INTEGRAL",
"OBJECT_ID": "2002-048A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:37:23.674080",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.37566045,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.87772529,
"INCLINATION": 88.4761,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 340.3529,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 256.076,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 242.5518,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27540,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2717,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000658,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}