- Navigation satellite
- GIOVE-B
- NORAD 32781
- 2008-020A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Giove-B 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 Giove-B, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Andaman Sea LIVE
Where is Giove-B?
At 4:55:49 PM UTC Giove-B was over the Andaman Sea (6.8° N, 96.6° E), 23,829 km up, moving at 3.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Giove-B?
A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Apr 26, 2008.
Can I see Giove-B?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Giove-B, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- State
- European Space Agency
- Built by
- Thales Alenia Space
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 530 kg
- Operating
- 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 6.8° N, 96.6° E
- Altitude
- 23,829 km
- Speed
- 3.63 km/s (13,075 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:52 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 60.1°
- Orbital period
- 870.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.65
- This orbit
- 23,810 to 23,838 km
- In shadow
- 59 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,560 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 2:06 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:06 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Giove-B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Giove-B 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
Giove-B shares its launch, 2008-020, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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, 2:06 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GIOVE-B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2008-020A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:06:21.631104",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.65405181,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00046583,
"INCLINATION": 60.1173,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 34.6001,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 255.4618,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 104.5107,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 32781,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 11282,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -9.4e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}