- Military
- NORAD 3334
- 1968-063A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches OPS 2222 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 2222, 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
Summary
Over the Arabian Sea LIVE
Where is OPS 2222?
At 7:10:19 PM UTC OPS 2222 was over the Arabian Sea (4.9° N, 64.2° E), 37,563 km up, moving at 2.96 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OPS 2222?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Aug 6, 1968.
Can I see OPS 2222?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPS 2222, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 240 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, 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
- 7:10 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:10 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 4.9° N, 64.2° E
- Altitude
- 37,563 km
- Speed
- 2.96 km/s (10,652 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 5.6°
- Orbital period
- 1,450.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 32,295 to 39,858 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,980 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:56 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:56 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPS 2222, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OPS 2222 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
OPS 2222 shares its launch, 1968-063, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ATLAS AGENA 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, 7:56 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 2222",
"OBJECT_ID": "1968-063A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:56:41.130240",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.99250362,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.08906225,
"INCLINATION": 5.553,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 280.3052,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 236.9665,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 84.5383,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 3334,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2755,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -3.4e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}