- ST5-C
- NORAD 28982
- 2006-008C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches ST-5 SC224 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 ST-5 SC224, 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
- Close approach
On Friday, Oct 23 at 12:09 AM UTC, the rocket body of SL-14 (NORAD 11672) was to pass within 27 m of ST5-C (NORAD 28982). The chance was about 1 in 3,000.
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is ST-5 SC224?
At 5:36:27 PM UTC ST-5 SC224 was over the Pacific Ocean (41.1° N, 154.5° E), 1,224 km up, moving at 7 km/s and in sunlight.
What is ST-5 SC224?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 22, 2006.
Can I see ST-5 SC224?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for ST-5 SC224, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Launched
- Mass
- 25 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 41.1° N, 154.5° E
- Altitude
- 1,224 km
- Speed
- 7 km/s (25,186 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:37 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 105.5°
- Orbital period
- 99.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.47
- This orbit
- 250 to 1,219 km
- In shadow
- 23 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,700 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:20 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:20 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for ST-5 SC224, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- 1 reported. No close approach to ST-5 SC224 is reported for the next three 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
ST-5 SC224 shares its launch, 2006-008, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ST5-A | Satellite |
| PEGASUS 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:20 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "ST5-C",
"OBJECT_ID": "2006-008C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:20:26.457216",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.46617805,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.06810811,
"INCLINATION": 105.4554,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 271.7001,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 322.9946,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 32.6025,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 28982,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 57663,
"BSTAR": 0.0013052838,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00143244,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0.000008359848
}