Dove-3

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39429

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • DOVE 3
  • NORAD 39429
  • 2013-066P
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Dove-3 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over Antarctica

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Dove-3 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 Dove-3, 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 for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Dove-3?

At 4:54:03 PM UTC Dove-3 was over the Pacific Ocean (17.7° S, 133.9° W), 615 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Dove-3?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 21, 2013.

Can I see Dove-3?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Dove-3, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Planet Labs, Inc
State
United States of America
Built by
Planet Labs, Inc
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
5.2 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, 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
17.7° S, 133.9° W
Altitude
615 km
Speed
7.57 km/s (27,245 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 5:24 PM UTC
Inclination
97.6°
Orbital period
97.5 minutes
Orbits per day
14.77
This orbit
558 to 714 km
In shadow
26 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,790 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 3:34 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 3:34 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Dove-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Dove-3 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

Dove-3 shares its launch, 2013-066, with 25 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
APRIZESAT 7Communications satellite
ZACUBESatellite
SKYSAT 1Earth-watching satellite
DUBAISAT 2Earth-watching satellite
OPTOSSatellite
UNISAT 5Satellite
STSAT 3Space telescope
WNISAT 1Earth-watching satellite
CINEMA 2Satellite
APRIZESAT 8Communications satellite
CINEMA 3Satellite
TRITON 1Communications satellite
DELFI-N3XTSatellite
GOMX 1Communications satellite
BRITE-PLSpace telescope
ICUBE 1Satellite
VELOX-P 2Satellite
CUBEBUG 2Satellite
NEE 02 KRYSAORSatellite
PUCP-SAT 1Satellite
FUNCUBE 1Satellite
HINCUBEEarth-watching satellite
UWE-3Satellite
BPA 3/SL-24Satellite
SL-24 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Dove-3558 to 714 km97 minutes5.2 kg2013
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015
Aqua685 to 687 km98 minutesabout 2.9 t2002

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 3:34 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "DOVE 3",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-066P",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T03:34:49.937376",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.76815745,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.01112682,
  "INCLINATION": 97.6424,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 163.6121,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 280.6063,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 78.2631,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39429,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 69210,
  "BSTAR": 0.00047337342,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003624,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}