- Communications satellite
- Military
- OPS 9332 (IDSCS 17)
- NORAD 2863
- 1967-066B
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches OPS 9332 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 OPS 9332, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is OPS 9332?
At 5:38:53 PM UTC OPS 9332 was over the Pacific Ocean (3° N, 149° W), 33,526 km up, moving at 3.15 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OPS 9332?
A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jul 1, 1967.
Can I see OPS 9332?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPS 9332, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Philco-Ford WDL
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 45 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 3° N, 149° W
- Altitude
- 33,526 km
- Speed
- 3.15 km/s (11,344 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 3.2°
- Orbital period
- 1,310.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.1
- This orbit
- 33,048 to 33,529 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,890 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:00 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:00 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPS 9332, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OPS 9332 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
OPS 9332 shares its launch, 1967-066, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OPS 9331 (IDSCS 16) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9333 (IDSCS 18) | Communications satellite |
| OPS 9334 (DATS) | Communications satellite |
| LES 5 | Communications satellite |
| DODGE 1 | Satellite |
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B | Rocket 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPS 9332 | 33,048 to 33,529 km | 1,310 minutes | 45 kg | 1967 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
| Hotbird 13F | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.5 t | 2022 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:00 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 9332 (IDSCS 17)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1967-066B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:00:43.308288",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.09896787,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00605703,
"INCLINATION": 3.1862,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 90.6731,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 249.7379,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 7.9582,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 2863,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 12630,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -5.9e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}