- MOZHAYETS 4
- NORAD 27939
- 2003-042A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Eritrea
Orbit ends over Niger
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Mozhaets-4 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 Mozhaets-4, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Mozhaets-4?
At 4:55:46 PM UTC Mozhaets-4 was over the Pacific Ocean (40.2° N, 167.7° W), 660 km up, moving at 7.53 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Mozhaets-4?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 27, 2003.
Can I see Mozhaets-4?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Mozhaets-4, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Mozhaiskiy Military Space Academy
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- NPO Applied Mechanics
- Launched
- Mass
- 64 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 40.2° N, 167.7° W
- Altitude
- 660 km
- Speed
- 7.53 km/s (27,104 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:08 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.3°
- Orbital period
- 97.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.74
- This orbit
- 638 to 654 km
- In shadow
- 10 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,870 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:45 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:45 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Mozhaets-4, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Mozhaets-4 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
Mozhaets-4 shares its launch, 2003-042, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| RUBIN 4/SL-8 | Satellite |
| NIGERIASAT 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| UK-DMC | Earth-watching satellite |
| BILSAT 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LARETS | Satellite |
| KAISTSAT 4 | Space telescope |
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, 7:45 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "MOZHAYETS 4",
"OBJECT_ID": "2003-042A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:45:13.464000",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.73674517,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00113176,
"INCLINATION": 98.3437,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 140.8071,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 165.2844,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 8.3624,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27939,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 23677,
"BSTAR": 0.00014807078,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000913,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}