RAVAN

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/41849

  • NORAD 41849
  • 2016-067B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where RAVAN is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over Russia

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches RAVAN 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 RAVAN, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE

Where is RAVAN?

At 6:20:18 PM UTC RAVAN was over the Arctic Ocean (81.9° N, 155.7° E), 347 km up, moving at 7.71 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is RAVAN?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 11, 2016.

Can I see RAVAN?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for RAVAN, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
JHU-Applied Physics Lab
State
United States of America
Built by
Blue Canyon Technologies
Launched
Mass
5 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, 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
81.9° N, 155.7° E
Altitude
347 km
Speed
7.71 km/s (27,756 km/h)
Course
west
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:56 PM UTC
Inclination
98°
Orbital period
91.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.77
This orbit
331 to 339 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,220 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:40 PM, 18 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:40 PM, 18 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to RAVAN 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

RAVAN shares its launch, 2016-067, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CELTEE 1Satellite
OPTICUBE 04Satellite
AEROCUBE 8DSatellite
AEROCUBE 8CSatellite

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 7, 2026, 11:40 PM, 18 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "RAVAN",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2016-067B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:40:57.554400",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.77329792,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00058418,
  "INCLINATION": 97.9683,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 220.0573,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 127.6885,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 232.491,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 41849,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 55016,
  "BSTAR": 0.001455087,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00245332,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}