MGU-250

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/28523

  • TATIANA
  • NORAD 28523
  • 2005-002C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where MGU-250 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Weddell Sea

Orbit ends over the Weddell Sea

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches MGU-250 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 MGU-250, 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 New Zealand LIVE

Where is MGU-250?

At 5:35:59 PM UTC MGU-250 was over New Zealand (43° S, 170.9° E), 940 km up, moving at 7.39 km/s and in sunlight.

What is MGU-250?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 20, 2005.

Can I see MGU-250?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for MGU-250, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Moscow State University
State
Russian Federation
Built by
Moscow State University
Launched
Mass
30 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
43° S, 170.9° E
Altitude
940 km
Speed
7.39 km/s (26,593 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
82.9°
Orbital period
103.7 minutes
Orbits per day
13.88
This orbit
906 to 959 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,320 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:08 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:08 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for MGU-250, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to MGU-250 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

MGU-250 shares its launch, 2005-002, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
COSMOS 2414Navigation satellite
SL-8 R/BRocket body

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, 6:08 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "TATIANA",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2005-002C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:08:40.575552",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.88100712,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00362016,
  "INCLINATION": 82.9464,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 296.5584,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 288.4757,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 71.2473,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 28523,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 10394,
  "BSTAR": 0.000098467171,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000133,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}