Eutelsat W2A

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/34710

  • Communications satellite
  • EUTE 10A (EUTE W2A)
  • NORAD 34710
  • 2009-016A
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Eutelsat W2A is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Eutelsat W2A 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 Eutelsat W2A, 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

  2. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Eutelsat W2A, Sep 10, 2016 to Jul 28, 2017, as public sources state. Its sources

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Eutelsat W2A?

At 5:35:59 PM UTC Eutelsat W2A was over the Pacific Ocean (2.7° N, 105.9° W), 36,329 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Eutelsat W2A?

A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Apr 3, 2009.

Can I see Eutelsat W2A?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Eutelsat W2A, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Eutelsat SA
State
French Republic
Built by
Thales Alenia Space
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
about 5.9 t
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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
2.7° N, 105.9° W
Altitude
36,329 km
Speed
3.06 km/s (11,009 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
3.4°
Orbital period
1,467.7 minutes
Orbits per day
0.98
This orbit
36,323 to 36,485 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,960 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 3:40 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 3:40 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Eutelsat W2A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Eutelsat W2A 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

Eutelsat W2A shares its launch, 2009-016, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
BREEZE-M R/BRocket body
BREEZE-M DEB (TANK)Debris

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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Eutelsat W2A36,323 to 36,485 km1,468 minutesabout 5.9 t2009
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011
Hotbird 13F35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.5 t2022

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 3:40 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "EUTE 10A (EUTE W2A)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2009-016A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T15:40:55.992576",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.98113005,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00188818,
  "INCLINATION": 3.4146,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 78.3208,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 153.9419,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 312.3668,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 34710,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 4245,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -3e-8,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}