- Navigation satellite
- NORAD 38857
- 2012-055A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches GALILEO-FM3 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 GALILEO-FM3, 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.
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is GALILEO-FM3?
At 4:10:01 AM UTC GALILEO-FM3 was over the Pacific Ocean (15.1° N, 162.2° E), 23,224 km up, moving at 3.67 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GALILEO-FM3?
A Galileo navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Oct 12, 2012.
Can I see GALILEO-FM3?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GALILEO-FM3, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
GALILEO-FM3 is one of the 28 navigation satellites of the Galileo constellation. See every Galileo satellite and how many are above you right now.
- Launched
- Known to its operator as
- GSAT0103
- Typical altitude
- 23,100 to 23,300 km
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:10 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:10 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 15.1° N, 162.2° E
- Altitude
- 23,224 km
- Speed
- 3.67 km/s (13,212 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 55.9°
- Orbital period
- 844.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.7
- This orbit
- 23,218 to 23,227 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,530 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 2, 2026, 7:46 AM, 19 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 2, 2026, 7:46 AM, 20 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GALILEO-FM3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GALILEO-FM3 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 2, 2026, 1:53 PM, 13 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
| Constellation | Satellites | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Planes | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galileo | 28 | 23,100 to 23,300 km | 845 minutes | — | EUSPA, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme |
| GPS | 32 | 20,000 to 20,400 km | 718 minutes | 6 | The United States Space Force |
| BeiDou | 37 | 21,450 to 21,600 km | 773 minutes | — | The China Satellite Navigation Office |
| GLONASS | 24 | 19,050 to 19,200 km | 676 minutes | — | Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corporation |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 2, 2026, 7:46 AM, 19 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GALILEO-FM3",
"OBJECT_ID": "2012-055A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-02T07:46:02.768160",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.70473206,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001599,
"INCLINATION": 55.8983,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 97.7541,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 283.1055,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 76.8731,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 38857,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 8736,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 4.4e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}