- Military
- NORAD 2828
- 1967-053C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Australia
Orbit ends over Australia
In view from you
Nobody watches GGSE 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 GGSE 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 Canada LIVE
Where is GGSE 4?
At 6:31:51 PM UTC GGSE 4 was over Canada (54.2° N, 63.8° W), 915 km up, moving at 7.4 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GGSE 4?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 31, 1967.
Can I see GGSE 4?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GGSE 4, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Naval Research Lab
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 85 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, 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
- 6:31 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:31 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 54.2° N, 63.8° W
- Altitude
- 915 km
- Speed
- 7.4 km/s (26,629 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 70°
- Orbital period
- 103 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.98
- This orbit
- 892 to 905 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,290 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:13 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:13 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GGSE 4, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GGSE 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
GGSE 4 shares its launch, 1967-053, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| THOR AGENA D R/B | Rocket body |
| OPS 5712 (P/L 160) | Satellite |
| GGSE 5 | Satellite |
| TIMATION 1 | Navigation satellite |
| SURCAL 159 | Satellite |
| OPS 5712 (P/L 152) | Satellite |
| OPS 5712 (P/L 153) | Satellite |
| P/L 153 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:13 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GGSE 4",
"OBJECT_ID": "1967-053C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:13:14.367072",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.98111595,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00092382,
"INCLINATION": 69.9689,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 113.6046,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 325.3402,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 34.7102,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 2828,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2828,
"BSTAR": 0.000084139625,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.6e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}