- Navigation satellite
- NORAD 41861
- 2016-069C
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches GALILEO 17 (26D) 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 GALILEO 17 (26D), 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Summary
Over the People's Republic of China LIVE
Where is GALILEO 17 (26D)?
At 4:11:00 AM UTC GALILEO 17 (26D) was over the People's Republic of China (48.2° N, 122° E), 23,232 km up, moving at 3.67 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GALILEO 17 (26D)?
A Galileo navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Nov 17, 2016.
Can I see GALILEO 17 (26D)?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GALILEO 17 (26D), and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
GALILEO 17 (26D) is one of the 28 navigation satellites of the Galileo constellation. See every Galileo satellite and how many are above you right now.
- Launched
- Known to its operator as
- GSAT0213
- Typical altitude
- 23,100 to 23,300 km
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:11 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:11 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 48.2° N, 122° E
- Altitude
- 23,232 km
- Speed
- 3.67 km/s (13,212 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 55.6°
- Orbital period
- 844.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.7
- This orbit
- 23,218 to 23,226 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,530 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 25, 2026, 6:34 PM, 8 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 25, 2026, 6:34 PM, 8 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GALILEO 17 (26D), so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GALILEO 17 (26D) has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 2, 2026, 1:53 PM, 11 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.
Beside the others
| Constellation | Satellites | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Planes | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galileo | 28 | 23,100 to 23,300 km | 845 minutes | — | EUSPA, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme |
| GPS | 32 | 20,000 to 20,400 km | 718 minutes | 6 | The United States Space Force |
| BeiDou | 37 | 21,450 to 21,600 km | 773 minutes | — | The China Satellite Navigation Office |
| GLONASS | 24 | 19,050 to 19,200 km | 676 minutes | — | Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corporation |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Oct 25, 2026, 6:34 PM, 8 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GALILEO 17 (26D)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2016-069C",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-25T18:34:58.529856",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.70474513,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00014671,
"INCLINATION": 55.5873,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 97.4749,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 316.6447,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 43.3506,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 41861,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 6174,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.1e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}