- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- CARTOSAT 2B
- NORAD 36795
- 2010-035A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Greenland Sea
Orbit ends over the Greenland Sea
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Cartosat 2B 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 Cartosat 2B, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Southern Ocean LIVE
Where is Cartosat 2B?
At 5:38:46 PM UTC Cartosat 2B was over the Southern Ocean (69.2° S, 71.1° E), 668 km up, moving at 7.52 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Cartosat 2B?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 12, 2010.
Can I see Cartosat 2B?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Cartosat 2B, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- State
- India, Republic of
- Built by
- Indian Space Research Organization
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 694 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Low 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
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 69.2° S, 71.1° E
- Altitude
- 668 km
- Speed
- 7.52 km/s (27,065 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:47 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98°
- Orbital period
- 97.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.79
- This orbit
- 622 to 640 km
- In shadow
- 30 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,880 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:35 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:35 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Cartosat 2B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Cartosat 2B 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
Cartosat 2B shares its launch, 2010-035, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| STUDSAT | Satellite |
| AISSAT 1 | Communications satellite |
| ALSAT 2A | Earth-watching satellite |
| TISAT 1 | Satellite |
| PSLV 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartosat 2B | 622 to 640 km | 97 minutes | 694 kg | 2010 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
| Aqua | 685 to 687 km | 98 minutes | about 2.9 t | 2002 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:35 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CARTOSAT 2B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2010-035A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:35:47.916096",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.78649649,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00127319,
"INCLINATION": 97.9786,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 1.7587,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 85.6892,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 274.5774,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 36795,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 88114,
"BSTAR": 0.000035497704,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000208,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}