- PRATHAM
- NORAD 41783
- 2016-059A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the United States of America
Orbit ends over Russia
In view from you
Nobody watches Pratham 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 Pratham, 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 Antarctica LIVE
Where is Pratham?
At 5:35:26 PM UTC Pratham was over Antarctica (77.6° S, 30.1° E), 719 km up, moving at 7.48 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Pratham?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 26, 2016.
Can I see Pratham?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Pratham, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- State
- India, Republic of
- Built by
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Launched
- Mass
- 10 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 77.6° S, 30.1° E
- Altitude
- 719 km
- Speed
- 7.48 km/s (26,939 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 98.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.67
- This orbit
- 644 to 689 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,970 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:51 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:51 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Pratham, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Pratham 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
Pratham shares its launch, 2016-059, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| PISAT | Earth-watching satellite |
| ALSAT 1B | Earth-watching satellite |
| ALSAT 2B | Earth-watching satellite |
| PATHFINDER 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ALSAT 1N | Satellite |
| SCATSAT 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| PSLV R/B | Rocket body |
| PSLV DEB | Debris |
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, 4:51 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "PRATHAM",
"OBJECT_ID": "2016-059A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:51:54.987264",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.67351711,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00323802,
"INCLINATION": 97.8441,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 302.8362,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 118.6886,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 241.758,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 41783,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 54063,
"BSTAR": 0.000155464,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000838,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}