OV1-13

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Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/3173

  • NORAD 3173
  • 1968-026A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where OV1-13 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over Colombia

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches OV1-13 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 OV1-13, 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 Canada LIVE

Where is OV1-13?

At 6:51:56 PM UTC OV1-13 was over Canada (49.8° N, 57.8° W), 1,254 km up, moving at 8.32 km/s and in sunlight.

What is OV1-13?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Apr 6, 1968.

Can I see OV1-13?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OV1-13, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
US Air Force Office of Aerospace Research
State
United States of America
Built by
General Dynamics/Convair Division (Plant 19)
Launched
Mass
107 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Highly elliptical 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
6:51 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:51 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
49.8° N, 57.8° W
Altitude
1,254 km
Speed
8.32 km/s (29,956 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
100°
Orbital period
198.4 minutes
Orbits per day
7.26
This orbit
547 to 9,227 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,740 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:22 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:22 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for OV1-13, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to OV1-13 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

OV1-13 shares its launch, 1968-026, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OV1-14Satellite
OV1-14 R/BRocket body
OV1-13 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 7, 2026, 8:22 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OV1-13",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1968-026A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T08:22:34.193568",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 7.25879399,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.3852372,
  "INCLINATION": 99.9614,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 80.7965,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 178.2563,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 183.7702,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 3173,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 54859,
  "BSTAR": 0.00032345124,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000224,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}