MKA-N 1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/42834

  • OBJECT K
  • NORAD 42834
  • 2017-042K
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where MKA-N 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Ross Sea

Orbit ends over Antarctica

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches MKA-N 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 MKA-N 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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Russia LIVE

Where is MKA-N 1?

At 6:20:14 PM UTC MKA-N 1 was over Russia (64.3° N, 131.2° E), 550 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is MKA-N 1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 14, 2017.

Can I see MKA-N 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for MKA-N 1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Korporatsii Roskosmos
State
Russian Federation
Built by
Dauria Aerospace
Launched
Mass
10 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
64.3° N, 131.2° E
Altitude
550 km
Speed
7.59 km/s (27,328 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:27 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
95.4 minutes
Orbits per day
15.1
This orbit
528 to 537 km
In shadow
24 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,670 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:30 AM, 8 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:30 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for MKA-N 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to MKA-N 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

MKA-N 1 shares its launch, 2017-042, with 23 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
KANOPUS-V-IKEarth-watching satellite
NORSAT 1Communications satellite
OBJECT CSatellite
NORSAT 2Communications satellite
TECHNOSATSatellite
FLYING LAPTOPSatellite
OBJECT HSatellite
OBJECT JSatellite
WNISAT 1REarth-watching satellite
OBJECT MSatellite
LEMUR 2 GREENBERGCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 ANDISCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 MONSONCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 FURIAUSCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 PETERGCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 DEMBITZCommunications satellite
OBJECT UEarth-watching satellite
NANOACESatellite
LEMUR 2 ZACHARYCommunications satellite
CORVUS BC2Earth-watching satellite
CORVUS BC1Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT ZEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT AAEarth-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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:30 AM, 8 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT K",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2017-042K",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:30:30.183264",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.10208105,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00071613,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4364,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 109.5066,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 287.9149,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 72.13,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 42834,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 50873,
  "BSTAR": 0.00045270112,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00007342,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}