- Military
- TEMPSAT 2
- NORAD 4168
- 1969-082H
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Tempsat 2 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 Tempsat 2, 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 Benin LIVE
Where is Tempsat 2?
At 6:20:11 PM UTC Tempsat 2 was over Benin (11.3° N, 2° E), 919 km up, moving at 7.39 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Tempsat 2?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 30, 1969.
Can I see Tempsat 2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tempsat 2, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Naval Research Lab
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Naval Research Lab
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 14 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, 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 11.3° N, 2° E
- Altitude
- 919 km
- Speed
- 7.39 km/s (26,600 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 70°
- Orbital period
- 103.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.96
- This orbit
- 889 to 922 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,290 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 12:20 AM, 17 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:20 AM, 17 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tempsat 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Tempsat 2 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
Tempsat 2 shares its launch, 1969-082, with 60 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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, 12:20 AM, 17 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TEMPSAT 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "1969-082H",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:20:12.096096",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.96031649,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00224875,
"INCLINATION": 70.0121,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 150.7238,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 295.6259,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 64.2523,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 4168,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 90816,
"BSTAR": 0.000063703506,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 3.5e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}