Orbcomm FM118

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/41183

  • Communications satellite
  • ORBCOMM FM 118
  • NORAD 41183
  • 2015-081E
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Orbcomm FM118 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Orbcomm FM118 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 Orbcomm FM118, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Orbcomm FM118?

At 6:20:50 PM UTC Orbcomm FM118 was over the Indian Ocean (37.2° S, 30.3° E), 705 km up, moving at 7.5 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Orbcomm FM118?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 22, 2015.

Can I see Orbcomm FM118?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Orbcomm FM118, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Orbcomm Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems (Louisville)
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
172 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, 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
37.2° S, 30.3° E
Altitude
705 km
Speed
7.5 km/s (27,014 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:22 PM UTC
Inclination
47°
Orbital period
98.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.59
This orbit
695 to 699 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,950 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:05 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:05 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Orbcomm FM118, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Orbcomm FM118 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

Orbcomm FM118 shares its launch, 2015-081, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
ORBCOMM FM 114Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 119Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 105Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 110Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 112Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 113Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 115Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 108Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 117Communications satellite
ORBCOMM FM 116Communications satellite

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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Orbcomm FM118695 to 699 km99 minutes172 kg2015
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:05 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ORBCOMM FM 118",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2015-081E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:05:48.494688",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.59137034,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00027724,
  "INCLINATION": 47.0052,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 40.3535,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 302.4004,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 57.6614,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 41183,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 57877,
  "BSTAR": 0.00019046686,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000734,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}