- Communications satellite
- Military
- RADUGA 1M-2
- NORAD 36358
- 2010-002A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Raduga-1M 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 Raduga-1M, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
- Rendezvous
GSSAP vehicle came up beside Raduga-1M, from May 14, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Raduga-1M?
At 6:20:33 PM UTC Raduga-1M was over the Atlantic Ocean (3.3° S, 10.5° W), 36,128 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Raduga-1M?
A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jan 28, 2010.
Can I see Raduga-1M?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Raduga-1M, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- OAO M. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.8 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, 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 3.3° S, 10.5° W
- Altitude
- 36,128 km
- Speed
- 3.06 km/s (11,027 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 4°
- Orbital period
- 1,455 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 36,129 to 36,184 km
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:47 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:47 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Raduga-1M, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Raduga-1M 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
Raduga-1M shares its launch, 2010-002, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| BREEZE-M R/B | Rocket 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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raduga-1M | 36,129 to 36,184 km | 1,455 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2010 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
| Hotbird 13F | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.5 t | 2022 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:47 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "RADUGA 1M-2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2010-002A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:47:31.007040",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.98969829,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00064232,
"INCLINATION": 3.9914,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 76.9922,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 234.2112,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 175.1907,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 36358,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 5145,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000195,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}