Ratsat

LIVE
See on the map

Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/33393

  • DEMOSAT/FALCON 1
  • NORAD 33393
  • 2008-048A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Ratsat is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
View on live map

Orbit began over the Solomon Sea

Orbit ends over the Arafura Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Ratsat 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 Ratsat, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Ratsat?

At 6:43:37 PM UTC Ratsat was over the Indian Ocean (8.3° S, 117.6° E), 567 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Ratsat?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 28, 2008.

Can I see Ratsat?

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

General

Operator
SpaceX
State
United States of America
Built by
SpaceX
Launched
Mass
165 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
6:43 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:43 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
8.3° S, 117.6° E
Altitude
567 km
Speed
7.58 km/s (27,302 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:48 PM UTC
Inclination
9.3°
Orbital period
96.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.97
This orbit
574 to 589 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,700 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:27 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:27 AM, 12 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Ratsat 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:27 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "DEMOSAT/FALCON 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2008-048A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:27:34.331040",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.97206311,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00109721,
  "INCLINATION": 9.3442,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 208.2595,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 252.3509,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 107.5493,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 33393,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 98454,
  "BSTAR": 0.00029899094,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004277,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}