OV2-5

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/3428

  • NORAD 3428
  • 1968-081A
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where OV2-5 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Ecuador

Orbit ends over Peru

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches OV2-5 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 OV2-5, 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 Ecuador LIVE

Where is OV2-5?

At 5:35:37 PM UTC OV2-5 was over Ecuador (0.1° S, 76.6° W), 35,490 km up, moving at 3.08 km/s and in sunlight.

What is OV2-5?

A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Sep 26, 1968.

Can I see OV2-5?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OV2-5, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization
State
United States of America
Built by
Northrop Space Laboratories, Northrop Corp.
Launched
Mass
200 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Medium 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
0.1° S, 76.6° W
Altitude
35,490 km
Speed
3.08 km/s (11,099 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
2.3°
Orbital period
1,417.9 minutes
Orbits per day
1.02
This orbit
35,098 to 35,762 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:28 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:28 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for OV2-5, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to OV2-5 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

OV2-5 shares its launch, 1968-081, with 29 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
LES 6Communications satellite
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/BRocket body
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB *Debris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEBDebris

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, 6:28 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OV2-5",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1968-081A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:28:08.457312",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.01560161,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00793798,
  "INCLINATION": 2.3093,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 53.3174,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 282.7503,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 90.5995,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 3428,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12252,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000234,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}