Swarm B

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  • SWARM B
  • NORAD 39451
  • 2013-067A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Swarm B is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Swarm B 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 Swarm B, 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 Shelikhov Gulf LIVE

Where is Swarm B?

At 5:38:44 PM UTC Swarm B was over the Shelikhov Gulf (60.4° N, 161.8° E), 487 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Swarm B?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 22, 2013.

Can I see Swarm B?

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

General

Operator
European Space Agency
State
European Space Agency
Built by
EADS Astrium Satellites (D), Friedrichsafen
Launched
Mass
473 kg
Operating
Yes
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
60.4° N, 161.8° E
Altitude
487 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,464 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:48 PM UTC
Inclination
87.7°
Orbital period
94.2 minutes
Orbits per day
15.29
This orbit
473 to 477 km
In shadow
15 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:33 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:33 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Swarm B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Swarm B 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

Swarm B shares its launch, 2013-067, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SWARM ASatellite
SWARM CSatellite

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, 4:33 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SWARM B",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-067A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:33:39.853440",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.29303441,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00027081,
  "INCLINATION": 87.7376,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 298.5394,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 98.0226,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 262.1331,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39451,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 70524,
  "BSTAR": 0.00017767188,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00005081,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}