- Communications satellite
- PAKSAT 1R
- NORAD 37779
- 2011-042A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Paksat 1R 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 Paksat 1R, 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 Paksat 1R, from Sep 21, 2017, as public sources state. Its sources
- Rendezvous
Luch came up beside Paksat 1R, Oct 24, 2017 to Jan 14, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Paksat 1R?
At 6:20:03 PM UTC Paksat 1R was over the Pacific Ocean (0.3° N, 134.1° E), 36,051 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Paksat 1R?
A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Aug 11, 2011.
Can I see Paksat 1R?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Paksat 1R, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
- State
- Pakistan, Islamic Republic of
- Built by
- Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 5.1 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 0.3° N, 134.1° E
- Altitude
- 36,051 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,034 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 1.1°
- Orbital period
- 1,449 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 36,029 to 36,052 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:11 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:11 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Paksat 1R, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Paksat 1R 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paksat 1R | 36,029 to 36,052 km | 1,449 minutes | about 5.1 t | 2011 |
| 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, 8:11 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "PAKSAT 1R",
"OBJECT_ID": "2011-042A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:11:02.254848",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.99375551,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00027126,
"INCLINATION": 1.0577,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 82.602,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 198.8832,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 24.2967,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 37779,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 5591,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000307,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}