- Military
- XSS 10
- NORAD 27664
- 2003-005B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over India
Orbit ends over Iran
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches XSS-10 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 XSS-10, 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 Argentina LIVE
Where is XSS-10?
At 6:20:28 PM UTC XSS-10 was over Argentina (39° S, 71.4° W), 689 km up, moving at 7.47 km/s and in sunlight.
What is XSS-10?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 29, 2003.
Can I see XSS-10?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for XSS-10, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Space and Missile Center
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 28 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Low Earth 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 39° S, 71.4° W
- Altitude
- 689 km
- Speed
- 7.47 km/s (26,885 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:42 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 39.7°
- Orbital period
- 96.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.91
- This orbit
- 496 to 700 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,920 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:19 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:19 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for XSS-10, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to XSS-10 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
XSS-10 shares its launch, 2003-005, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| NAVSTAR 51 (USA 166) | Navigation satellite |
| DELTA 2 R/B(1) | 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:19 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "XSS 10",
"OBJECT_ID": "2003-005B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:19:28.860960",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.90780961,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.01456983,
"INCLINATION": 39.7472,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 359.5968,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 38.7909,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 322.3232,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27664,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 28412,
"BSTAR": 0.00016126155,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001811,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}