COSMIC 1-6

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/29047

  • FORMOSAT 3A
  • NORAD 29047
  • 2006-011A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where COSMIC 1-6 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over Madagascar

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches COSMIC 1-6 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 COSMIC 1-6, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is COSMIC 1-6?

At 5:19:33 PM UTC COSMIC 1-6 was over the Pacific Ocean (17.2° N, 118.5° W), 824 km up, moving at 7.43 km/s and in sunlight.

What is COSMIC 1-6?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 15, 2006.

Can I see COSMIC 1-6?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for COSMIC 1-6, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
National Space Organization
State
China, Republic of (Taiwan)
Built by
Orbital Sciences Corp.
Launched
Mass
62 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
5:19 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:19 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
17.2° N, 118.5° W
Altitude
824 km
Speed
7.43 km/s (26,730 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:05 PM UTC
Inclination
72°
Orbital period
100.6 minutes
Orbits per day
14.31
This orbit
749 to 820 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,150 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:11 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:11 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for COSMIC 1-6, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to COSMIC 1-6 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

COSMIC 1-6 shares its launch, 2006-011, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
FORMOSAT 3BSatellite
FORMOSAT 3CSatellite
FORMOSAT 3DSatellite
FORMOSAT 3ESatellite
FORMOSAT 3FSatellite

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, 8:11 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "FORMOSAT 3A",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2006-011A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:11:10.392000",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.31486784,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00491197,
  "INCLINATION": 71.9789,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 15.8093,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 345.7115,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 14.263,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 29047,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 7503,
  "BSTAR": 0.0001824072,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000449,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}