STRaND-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39090

  • STRAND 1
  • NORAD 39090
  • 2013-009E
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where STRaND-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Libya

Orbit ends over Algeria

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In view from you

Nobody watches STRaND-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 STRaND-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 Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is STRaND-1?

At 4:54:06 PM UTC STRaND-1 was over the Southern Ocean (64.3° S, 9.8° W), 793 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.

What is STRaND-1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 25, 2013.

Can I see STRaND-1?

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

General

Operator
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd/Astrium
State
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Built by
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd/Astrium
Launched
Mass
6 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
4:54 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:54 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
64.3° S, 9.8° W
Altitude
793 km
Speed
7.46 km/s (26,842 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.4°
Orbital period
100.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.37
This orbit
758 to 771 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,100 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:44 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:44 AM, 11 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to STRaND-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.

Launched with

STRaND-1 shares its launch, 2013-009, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SARALEarth-watching satellite
AAUSAT3Communications satellite
SAPPHIRESatellite
NEOSSATSpace telescope
BRITE-A TUGSAT-1Space telescope
BRITE-U UNIBRITESpace telescope
PSLV R/BRocket body
PSLV DEBDebris

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, 5:44 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STRAND 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-009E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:44:19.154112",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.37233059,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00090584,
  "INCLINATION": 98.3961,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 129.0096,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 153.9067,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 206.2578,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39090,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 71775,
  "BSTAR": 0.00012786129,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000338,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}