SBSS 1

LIVE
See on the map

Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/37168

  • Military
  • SBSS (USA 216)
  • NORAD 37168
  • 2010-048A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SBSS 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
View on live map

Orbit began over Canada

Orbit ends over the United States of America

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches SBSS 1 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 SBSS 1, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is SBSS 1?

At 6:21:03 PM UTC SBSS 1 was over the Pacific Ocean (48.3° S, 113.6° W), 554 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.

What is SBSS 1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 26, 2010.

Can I see SBSS 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SBSS 1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
US Air Force Space and Missile Center
State
United States of America
Built by
Ball Aerospace
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 1 t
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, 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
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
48.3° S, 113.6° W
Altitude
554 km
Speed
7.57 km/s (27,256 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 6:57 PM UTC
Inclination
97.7°
Orbital period
94.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.17
This orbit
455 to 566 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,670 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:00 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:00 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for SBSS 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to SBSS 1 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, 5:00 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SBSS (USA 216)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2010-048A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:00:23.663808",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.17467119,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.008084,
  "INCLINATION": 97.7122,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 200.379,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 66.6218,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 90.1144,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 37168,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 87430,
  "BSTAR": 0.00030225,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00006513,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}