- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- PERUSAT 1
- NORAD 41770
- 2016-058A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Canada
Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches PeruSat-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 PeruSat-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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is PeruSat-1?
At 10:18:52 PM UTC PeruSat-1 was over the Atlantic Ocean (63.4° N, 14.8° W), 708 km up, moving at 7.51 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is PeruSat-1?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 16, 2016.
Can I see PeruSat-1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for PeruSat-1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Ministry of Defense of Peru
- State
- Peru, Republic of
- Built by
- Airbus Defense and Space (F) Toulouse
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 430 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
- 10:18 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 10:18 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 63.4° N, 14.8° W
- Altitude
- 708 km
- Speed
- 7.51 km/s (27,029 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 10:22 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.2°
- Orbital period
- 98.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.59
- This orbit
- 694 to 696 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,960 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:12 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:12 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for PeruSat-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to PeruSat-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
PeruSat-1 shares its launch, 2016-058, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SKYSAT C4 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SKYSAT C5 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SKYSAT C2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SKYSAT C3 | Earth-watching 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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PeruSat-1 | 694 to 696 km | 99 minutes | 430 kg | 2016 |
| Sentinel-1A | 693 to 695 km | 99 minutes | about 2.2 t | 2014 |
| Sentinel-1C | 695 to 697 km | 99 minutes | about 2.2 t | 2024 |
| Sentinel-1D | 695 to 697 km | 99 minutes | about 2.2 t | 2025 |
| Terra | 688 to 691 km | 99 minutes | about 5.2 t | 1999 |
| Landsat 8 | 702 to 703 km | 99 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2013 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:12 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "PERUSAT 1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2016-058A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:12:07.458912",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.58541465,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00012487,
"INCLINATION": 98.1901,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 23.9805,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 95.1573,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 264.9769,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 41770,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 54010,
"BSTAR": 0.000036685387,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000125,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}