- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- ASNARO
- NORAD 40298
- 2014-070A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Kazakhstan
Orbit ends over Russia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches ASNARO-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 ASNARO-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 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is ASNARO-1?
At 5:37:06 PM UTC ASNARO-1 was over the Pacific Ocean (7.9° S, 108.4° W), 513 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.
What is ASNARO-1?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 6, 2014.
Can I see ASNARO-1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for ASNARO-1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Japan Space Systems
- State
- Japan (Nippon), State of
- Built by
- NEC Toshiba Space, Fuchu works
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 495 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, what it is for, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 7.9° S, 108.4° W
- Altitude
- 513 km
- Speed
- 7.61 km/s (27,378 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:09 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- Orbital period
- 94.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.2
- This orbit
- 501 to 507 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,590 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:43 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:43 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for ASNARO-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to ASNARO-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
ASNARO-1 shares its launch, 2014-070, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SL-24 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASNARO-1 | 501 to 507 km | 95 minutes | 495 kg | 2014 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:43 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "ASNARO",
"OBJECT_ID": "2014-070A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:43:54.708096",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.19555034,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00038678,
"INCLINATION": 97.3335,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 24.36,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 54.9479,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 305.2118,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40298,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 66588,
"BSTAR": 0.000532901,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00011275,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}