- UNISAT 3
- NORAD 28373
- 2004-025H
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Antarctica
Orbit ends over Antarctica
In view from you
Nobody watches UniSat-3 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 UniSat-3, 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 Namibia LIVE
Where is UniSat-3?
At 5:39:14 PM UTC UniSat-3 was over Namibia (21.3° S, 17.6° E), 716 km up, moving at 7.51 km/s and in sunlight.
What is UniSat-3?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 29, 2004.
Can I see UniSat-3?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for UniSat-3, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Gruppo di Astrodinamica dell'Universita degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
- State
- Italian Republic
- Built by
- Gruppo di Astrodinamica dell'Universita degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
- Launched
- Mass
- 12 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 21.3° S, 17.6° E
- Altitude
- 716 km
- Speed
- 7.51 km/s (27,029 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.7°
- Orbital period
- 99.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.49
- This orbit
- 680 to 771 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,970 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 6:57 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 6:57 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for UniSat-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to UniSat-3 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
UniSat-3 shares its launch, 2004-025, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| APRIZESAT 2 | Communications satellite |
| SL-24 R/B | Rocket body |
| DEMETER | Satellite |
| SAUDICOMSAT 1 | Communications satellite |
| SAUDICOMSAT 2 | Communications satellite |
| SAUDISAT 2 | Satellite |
| APRIZESAT 1 | Communications satellite |
| SL-24 DEB | Debris |
| AMSAT ECHO | Communications satellite |
| SL-24 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 7, 2026, 6:57 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "UNISAT 3",
"OBJECT_ID": "2004-025H",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T06:57:13.487616",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.49173498,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00640024,
"INCLINATION": 98.692,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 325.4854,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 279.9527,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 79.4446,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 28373,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 17977,
"BSTAR": 0.00011962078,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000416,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}