CORVUS BC1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/42847

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • NORAD 42847
  • 2017-042Y
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where CORVUS BC1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Tasman Sea

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches CORVUS BC1 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 CORVUS BC1, 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 the Sea of Japan LIVE

Where is CORVUS BC1?

At 6:20:09 PM UTC CORVUS BC1 was over the Sea of Japan (44.3° N, 139.4° E), 551 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is CORVUS BC1?

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

Can I see CORVUS BC1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for CORVUS BC1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Astro Digital
State
United States of America
Built by
Astro Digital
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
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, 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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
44.3° N, 139.4° E
Altitude
551 km
Speed
7.59 km/s (27,328 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:32 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
95.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.07
This orbit
534 to 549 km
In shadow
24 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,670 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 7:49 PM, 22 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 7:49 PM, 22 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for CORVUS BC1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to CORVUS BC1 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

CORVUS BC1 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
OBJECT KSatellite
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
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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
CORVUS BC1534 to 549 km95 minutes10 kg2017
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 7, 2026, 7:49 PM, 22 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "CORVUS BC1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2017-042Y",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T19:49:54.302016",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.07199084,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0010601,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4249,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 108.7406,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 323.123,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 36.9268,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 42847,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 50872,
  "BSTAR": 0.0002672,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003967,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}