Jugnu

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  • JUGNU
  • NORAD 37839
  • 2011-058B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Jugnu is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Mozambique Channel

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

In view from you

Nobody watches Jugnu 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 Jugnu, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Jugnu?

At 5:36:43 PM UTC Jugnu was over the Indian Ocean (16° S, 70° E), 834 km up, moving at 7.45 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Jugnu?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 12, 2011.

Can I see Jugnu?

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

General

Operator
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
State
India, Republic of
Built by
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Launched
Mass
3 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
16° S, 70° E
Altitude
834 km
Speed
7.45 km/s (26,802 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:56 PM UTC
Inclination
20°
Orbital period
101.9 minutes
Orbits per day
14.14
This orbit
838 to 865 km
In shadow
31 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,160 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 10:01 PM, 18 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:01 PM, 19 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Jugnu 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

Jugnu shares its launch, 2011-058, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
VESSELSAT 1Communications satellite
SRMSATSatellite
PSLV R/BRocket 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 10:01 PM, 18 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "JUGNU",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2011-058B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:01:16.930848",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.13813844,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00185664,
  "INCLINATION": 19.959,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 155.1792,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 223.7843,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 166.1208,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 37839,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 77939,
  "BSTAR": 0.00010167861,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000463,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}