CYGNSS FM04

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/41885

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • CYGFM04
  • NORAD 41885
  • 2016-078B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where CYGNSS FM04 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over Brunei

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches CYGNSS FM04 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 CYGNSS FM04, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Brazil LIVE

Where is CYGNSS FM04?

At 10:18:12 PM UTC CYGNSS FM04 was over Brazil (8.6° S, 59° W), 360 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in sunlight.

What is CYGNSS FM04?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 15, 2016.

Can I see CYGNSS FM04?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for CYGNSS FM04, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
NASA Langley Research Center
State
United States of America
Built by
Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
29 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, 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
8.6° S, 59° W
Altitude
360 km
Speed
7.69 km/s (27,695 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 10:21 PM UTC
Inclination
34.9°
Orbital period
91.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.71
This orbit
355 to 363 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,250 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:38 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:38 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for CYGNSS FM04, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to CYGNSS FM04 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

CYGNSS FM04 shares its launch, 2016-078, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CYGFM05Earth-watching satellite
CYGFM02Earth-watching satellite
CYGFM01Earth-watching satellite
CYGFM08Earth-watching satellite
CYGFM07Earth-watching satellite
CYGFM03Earth-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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
CYGNSS FM04355 to 363 km92 minutes29 kg2016
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:38 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "CYGFM04",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2016-078B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:38:40.282944",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.7123967,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00060521,
  "INCLINATION": 34.9313,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 340.0381,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 166.3624,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 193.7269,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 41885,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 55161,
  "BSTAR": 0.0005796654,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00076892,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}