RITE TARGET 1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/28454

  • NORAD 28454
  • 2002-056F
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where RITE TARGET 1 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 Sea of Japan

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches RITE TARGET 1 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 RITE TARGET 1, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is RITE TARGET 1?

At 6:21:16 PM UTC RITE TARGET 1 was over the Indian Ocean (50.3° S, 137° E), 788 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.

What is RITE TARGET 1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 14, 2002.

Can I see RITE TARGET 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for RITE TARGET 1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Launched
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the launch day. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
50.3° S, 137° E
Altitude
788 km
Speed
7.46 km/s (26,849 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.8°
Orbital period
100.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.37
This orbit
758 to 772 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,090 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 4:13 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 4:13 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for RITE TARGET 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to RITE TARGET 1 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

RITE TARGET 1 shares its launch, 2002-056, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
ADEOS 2Earth-watching satellite
FEDSATSatellite
WEOSEarth-watching satellite
MICRO LABSATSatellite
H-2A R/BRocket body
RITE TARGET 2Satellite

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, 4:13 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "RITE TARGET 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2002-056F",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T16:13:20.234496",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.37252242,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00098497,
  "INCLINATION": 98.7705,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 289.8162,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 137.7486,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 222.446,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 28454,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 70126,
  "BSTAR": 0.00023738856,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000662,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}