USA 285

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/43445

  • Military
  • NORAD 43445
  • 2018-036E
  • Inclined geosynchronous

Current orbit

Where USA 285 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches USA 285 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 USA 285, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is USA 285?

At 6:21:01 PM UTC USA 285 was over the Atlantic Ocean (6.6° S, 16.2° W), 35,262 km up, moving at 3.1 km/s and in sunlight.

What is USA 285?

A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Apr 14, 2018.

Can I see USA 285?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for USA 285, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate)
State
United States of America
Built by
Orbital ATK
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
100 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Inclined geosynchronous

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
6.6° S, 16.2° W
Altitude
35,262 km
Speed
3.1 km/s (11,142 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
7.5°
Orbital period
1,410.2 minutes
Orbits per day
1.02
This orbit
35,233 to 35,326 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,930 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 5, 2026, 4:05 AM, 3 days old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 5, 2026, 4:05 AM, 3 days old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for USA 285, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to USA 285 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

USA 285 shares its launch, 2018-036, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
USA 283Communications satellite
ATLAS CENTAUR R/BRocket body
ATLAS CENTAUR DEBDebris
USA 286Satellite

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 5, 2026, 4:05 AM, 3 days old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "USA 285",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-036E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-05T04:05:21.910272",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.02112158,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0011258,
  "INCLINATION": 7.4556,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 65.2135,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 173.6228,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 187.0121,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43445,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 2838,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.5e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}