- TDS 1
- NORAD 40076
- 2014-037H
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches TDS-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 TDS-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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE
Where is TDS-1?
At 6:20:26 PM UTC TDS-1 was over the Arctic Ocean (78.6° N, 136.9° W), 530 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.
What is TDS-1?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 8, 2014.
Can I see TDS-1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for TDS-1, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Technology Strategy Board, Dept. for Business, Innovation and Skills
- State
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Built by
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd/Astrium
- Launched
- Mass
- 157 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 78.6° N, 136.9° W
- Altitude
- 530 km
- Speed
- 7.61 km/s (27,385 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- Orbital period
- 95 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.15
- This orbit
- 513 to 523 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,620 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 6:08 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 6:08 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for TDS-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to TDS-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.
Launched with
TDS-1 shares its launch, 2014-037, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| METEOR M2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| MKA PN2 (RELEK) | Satellite |
| DX 1 | Satellite |
| SKYSAT 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| DUMMY SAT | Satellite |
| UKUBE 1 | Satellite |
| AISSAT 2 | Communications satellite |
| FREGAT DEB | Debris |
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 7, 2026, 6:08 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TDS 1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2014-037H",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T18:08:04.419744",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.15058102,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00070488,
"INCLINATION": 98.387,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 318.4757,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 131.5903,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 228.5932,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40076,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 66995,
"BSTAR": 0.00050626757,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00009401,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}