- TURKSAT 3U
- NORAD 39152
- 2013-018C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Turksat-3USat 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 Turksat-3USat, 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
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Turksat-3USat?
At 5:38:42 PM UTC Turksat-3USat was over the Indian Ocean (58.8° S, 103.4° E), 593 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Turksat-3USat?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 26, 2013.
Can I see Turksat-3USat?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Turksat-3USat, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Istanbul Technical University
- State
- Turkey, Republic of
- Built by
- Istanbul Technical University
- 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
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 58.8° S, 103.4° E
- Altitude
- 593 km
- Speed
- 7.57 km/s (27,234 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:41 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 96.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.97
- This orbit
- 565 to 580 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,750 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 1:52 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:52 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Turksat-3USat, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Turksat-3USat 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
Turksat-3USat shares its launch, 2013-018, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GAOFEN 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| NEE 01 PEGASUS | Satellite |
| CUBEBUG 1 | Satellite |
| CZ-2D 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, 1:52 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TURKSAT 3U",
"OBJECT_ID": "2013-018C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:52:11.655552",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.97154272,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00110938,
"INCLINATION": 97.7918,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 42.3491,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 348.4672,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 11.6293,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 39152,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 73261,
"BSTAR": 0.00044168257,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000505,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}