OPS 1264

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  • Earth-watching satellite
  • Military
  • OPS 1264 (DMSP 4A F4)
  • NORAD 2980
  • 1967-096A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where OPS 1264 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the People's Republic of China

Orbit ends over India

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches OPS 1264 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 1264, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is OPS 1264?

At 5:35:14 PM UTC OPS 1264 was over the Pacific Ocean (41.9° S, 95.3° W), 764 km up, moving at 7.44 km/s and in sunlight.

What is OPS 1264?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 11, 1967.

Can I see OPS 1264?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPS 1264, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization
State
United States of America
Built by
RCA Astro Electronics (Astro Space)
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
79 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, 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
41.9° S, 95.3° W
Altitude
764 km
Speed
7.44 km/s (26,773 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:00 PM UTC
Inclination
99.2°
Orbital period
98.4 minutes
Orbits per day
14.63
This orbit
614 to 746 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,050 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPS 1264, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to OPS 1264 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

OPS 1264 shares its launch, 1967-096, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
THOR BURNER 2 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
OPS 1264614 to 746 km98 minutes79 kg1967
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015
Aqua685 to 687 km98 minutesabout 2.9 t2002
Terra688 to 691 km99 minutesabout 5.2 t1999
Sentinel-1A693 to 695 km99 minutesabout 2.2 t2014
Sentinel-1C695 to 697 km99 minutesabout 2.2 t2024

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 1264 (DMSP 4A F4)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1967-096A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:05:13.416576",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.63113018,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0093418,
  "INCLINATION": 99.176,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 44.1578,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 33.4984,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 327.2075,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 2980,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 10818,
  "BSTAR": 0.00010427146,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000507,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}