SaudiComsat-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/28370

  • Communications satellite
  • SAUDICOMSAT 2
  • NORAD 28370
  • 2004-025E
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SaudiComsat-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches SaudiComsat-2 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 SaudiComsat-2, 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Algeria LIVE

Where is SaudiComsat-2?

At 6:20:52 PM UTC SaudiComsat-2 was over Algeria (26.6° N, 1.6° E), 764 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.

What is SaudiComsat-2?

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

Can I see SaudiComsat-2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SaudiComsat-2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology
State
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of
Built by
King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
12 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, what it is for, 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
26.6° N, 1.6° E
Altitude
764 km
Speed
7.46 km/s (26,842 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.7°
Orbital period
99.3 minutes
Orbits per day
14.5
This orbit
683 to 762 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,050 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for SaudiComsat-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to SaudiComsat-2 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

SaudiComsat-2 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
DEMETERSatellite
SAUDICOMSAT 1Communications 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
SaudiComsat-2683 to 762 km99 minutes12 kg2004
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:37 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SAUDICOMSAT 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2004-025E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:37:50.976480",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.50049966,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00553457,
  "INCLINATION": 98.6608,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 328.586,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 181.8141,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 178.286,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 28370,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18098,
  "BSTAR": 0.000096445843,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000332,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}