- Communications satellite
- Military
- NORAD 40975
- 2015-058M
- 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 SNAP-3 JIMI 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 SNAP-3 JIMI, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is SNAP-3 JIMI?
At 6:19:42 PM UTC SNAP-3 JIMI was over the Indian Ocean (45.2° S, 130.8° E), 521 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.
What is SNAP-3 JIMI?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 8, 2015.
Can I see SNAP-3 JIMI?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SNAP-3 JIMI, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC)
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Miltec Missiles and Space Co.
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 5.3 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, 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
- 6:19 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:19 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 45.2° S, 130.8° E
- Altitude
- 521 km
- Speed
- 7.63 km/s (27,468 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 64.8°
- Orbital period
- 95.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.04
- This orbit
- 471 to 637 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,610 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 9:48 PM, 20 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 9:48 PM, 20 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for SNAP-3 JIMI, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to SNAP-3 JIMI 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
SNAP-3 JIMI shares its launch, 2015-058, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| AEROCUBE 5C | Satellite |
| AEROCUBE 7 | Satellite |
| FOX-1 | Communications satellite |
| BISONSAT | Satellite |
| ARC-1 | Satellite |
| LMRST-SAT | Satellite |
| PROPCUBE 3 | Satellite |
| SINOD-D 1 | Satellite |
| PROPCUBE 1 | Satellite |
| SINOD-D 3 | Satellite |
| ATLAS 5 CENTAUR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP-3 JIMI | 471 to 637 km | 96 minutes | 5.3 kg | 2015 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 9:48 PM, 20 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SNAP-3 JIMI",
"OBJECT_ID": "2015-058M",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T21:48:08.745120",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.03739933,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0119189,
"INCLINATION": 64.7617,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 124.5073,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 1.6742,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 358.475,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40975,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 13582,
"BSTAR": 0.00038682,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00006038,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}