Michibiki

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/37158

  • Navigation satellite
  • QZS-1 (MICHIBIKI)
  • NORAD 37158
  • 2010-045A
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Michibiki is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the United States of America

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Michibiki 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 Michibiki, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the United States of America LIVE

Where is Michibiki?

At 4:55:00 PM UTC Michibiki was over the United States of America (42.6° N, 77° W), 39,697 km up, moving at 2.94 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Michibiki?

A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Sep 11, 2010.

Can I see Michibiki?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Michibiki, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.

General

Operator
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
State
Japan (Nippon), State of
Built by
Mitsubishi Electric Co.
What it is
Navigation satellite
Launched
Mass
about 4 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
4:55 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:55 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
42.6° N, 77° W
Altitude
39,697 km
Speed
2.94 km/s (10,595 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
44.4°
Orbital period
1,641.7 minutes
Orbits per day
0.88
This orbit
39,686 to 39,755 km
In view from
Within 8,030 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:00 AM, 8 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:00 AM, 8 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Michibiki 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, 8:00 AM, 8 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "QZS-1 (MICHIBIKI)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2010-045A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:00:58.896000",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.87715479,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00074309,
  "INCLINATION": 44.4212,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 114.8104,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 66.8469,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 280.4189,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 37158,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5765,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 4.7e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}