- NORAD 3825
- 1969-025C
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Southern Ocean
Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches OV1-19 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 OV1-19, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
- Close approach
On Tuesday, Nov 3 at 12:35 AM UTC, a fragment of Cosmos 2251 (NORAD 37084) was to pass within 365 m of OV1-19 (NORAD 3825). The chance was about 1 in 9,000.
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is OV1-19?
At 6:52:01 PM UTC OV1-19 was over the Indian Ocean (1.3° S, 67.5° E), 2,825 km up, moving at 6.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is OV1-19?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Mar 18, 1969.
Can I see OV1-19?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OV1-19, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Office of Aerospace Research
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- General Dynamics/Convair Division (Plant 19)
- Launched
- Mass
- 123 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical 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
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:52 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 1.3° S, 67.5° E
- Altitude
- 2,825 km
- Speed
- 6.64 km/s (23,900 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 7:18 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 104.8°
- Orbital period
- 150.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 9.59
- This orbit
- 477 to 5,485 km
- In shadow
- 40 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 4,110 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 3:50 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:50 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OV1-19, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- 1 reported. No close approach to OV1-19 is reported for the next three 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
OV1-19 shares its launch, 1969-025, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OV1-19 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 3:50 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OV1-19",
"OBJECT_ID": "1969-025C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:50:56.093280",
"MEAN_MOTION": 9.58540229,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.26756371,
"INCLINATION": 104.7611,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 37.6822,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 257.4746,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 71.7065,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 3825,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 99904,
"BSTAR": 0.00022316422,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000414,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}