Demeter

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  • DEMETER
  • NORAD 28368
  • 2004-025C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Demeter is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Demeter 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 Demeter, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Demeter?

At 5:36:03 PM UTC Demeter was over the Atlantic Ocean (17.2° N, 19.1° W), 618 km up, moving at 7.55 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Demeter?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 29, 2004.

Can I see Demeter?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Demeter, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
National Space Research Center
State
French Republic
Built by
National Space Research Center
Launched
Mass
132 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
17.2° N, 19.1° W
Altitude
618 km
Speed
7.55 km/s (27,187 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.1°
Orbital period
97 minutes
Orbits per day
14.84
This orbit
612 to 615 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,790 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:11 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:11 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Demeter, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Demeter 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Demeter shares its launch, 2004-025, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
APRIZESAT 2Communications satellite
SL-24 R/BRocket body
SAUDICOMSAT 1Communications satellite
SAUDICOMSAT 2Communications satellite
SAUDISAT 2Satellite
APRIZESAT 1Communications satellite
UNISAT 3Satellite
SL-24 DEBDebris
AMSAT ECHOCommunications satellite
SL-24 DEBDebris

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, 6:11 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "DEMETER",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2004-025C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:11:46.841856",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.84092602,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001917,
  "INCLINATION": 98.1445,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 294.8962,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 63.4848,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 296.6562,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 28368,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 20204,
  "BSTAR": 0.00023192579,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001879,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}