BPA 3/SL-24

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39448

  • NORAD 39448
  • 2013-066AJ
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where BPA 3/SL-24 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches BPA 3/SL-24 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 BPA 3/SL-24, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is BPA 3/SL-24?

At 4:54:00 PM UTC BPA 3/SL-24 was over the Atlantic Ocean (48.3° S, 44.8° W), 1,460 km up, moving at 6.97 km/s and in sunlight.

What is BPA 3/SL-24?

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

Can I see BPA 3/SL-24?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for BPA 3/SL-24, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Launched
Mass
about 1 t
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the launch day and the mass. 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
48.3° S, 44.8° W
Altitude
1,460 km
Speed
6.97 km/s (25,078 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 5:23 PM UTC
Inclination
97.7°
Orbital period
107.2 minutes
Orbits per day
13.43
This orbit
588 to 1,601 km
In shadow
29 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,970 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 3:13 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:13 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for BPA 3/SL-24, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to BPA 3/SL-24 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

BPA 3/SL-24 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
DOVE 3Earth-watching satellite
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
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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 3:13 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "BPA 3/SL-24",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-066AJ",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:13:37.644672",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.43269222,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.06774412,
  "INCLINATION": 97.6971,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 84.8747,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 5.7195,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 355.1202,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39448,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 63521,
  "BSTAR": 0.000026879998,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 2.7e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}