- Military
- LARETS
- NORAD 27944
- 2003-042F
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Larets 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 Larets, 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
- Close approach
On Wednesday, Nov 4 at 2:31 PM UTC, a fragment of Meteor 2-7 (NORAD 28389) was to pass within 748 m of Larets (NORAD 27944). The chance was about 1 in 2,000.
Summary
Over France LIVE
Where is Larets?
At 4:55:38 PM UTC Larets was over France (46.9° N, 5.4° E), 696 km up, moving at 7.51 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Larets?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 27, 2003.
Can I see Larets?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Larets, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Russian Institute for Space Device Engineering
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- Russian Institute for Space Device Engineering
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 10 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
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 46.9° N, 5.4° E
- Altitude
- 696 km
- Speed
- 7.51 km/s (27,032 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:05 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- Orbital period
- 98.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.64
- This orbit
- 670 to 686 km
- In shadow
- 16 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,930 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:07 AM, 8 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:07 AM, 8 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Larets, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- 1 reported. No close approach to Larets 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
Larets shares its launch, 2003-042, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| MOZHAYETS 4 | Satellite |
| RUBIN 4/SL-8 | Satellite |
| NIGERIASAT 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| UK-DMC | Earth-watching satellite |
| BILSAT 1 | Earth-watching 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, 8:07 AM, 8 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "LARETS",
"OBJECT_ID": "2003-042F",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:07:16.548672",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.63888586,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00113005,
"INCLINATION": 98.4293,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 117.7221,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 310.7142,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 49.3078,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27944,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 23445,
"BSTAR": 0.000021301223,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.1e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}