- Communications satellite
- IRIDIUM 147
- NORAD 43480
- 2018-047E
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Arctic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Iridium Next SV147 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 Iridium Next SV147, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the United States of America LIVE
Where is Iridium Next SV147?
At 6:21:12 PM UTC Iridium Next SV147 was over the United States of America (43.5° N, 118.8° W), 783 km up, moving at 7.47 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Iridium Next SV147?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 22, 2018.
Can I see Iridium Next SV147?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Iridium Next SV147, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Iridium Satellite LLC
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Orbital ATK Civil Sats. and Nat. Security Systems
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 860 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
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 43.5° N, 118.8° W
- Altitude
- 783 km
- Speed
- 7.47 km/s (26,881 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:11 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 86.4°
- Orbital period
- 100.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.34
- This orbit
- 773 to 776 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,080 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 11:18 PM, 19 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:18 PM, 19 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Iridium Next SV147, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Iridium Next SV147 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.
Launched with
Iridium Next SV147 shares its launch, 2018-047, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GRACE-FO 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| GRACE-FO 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| IRIDIUM 161 | Communications satellite |
| IRIDIUM 152 | Communications satellite |
| IRIDIUM 110 | Communications satellite |
| IRIDIUM 162 | Communications 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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iridium Next SV147 | 773 to 776 km | 100 minutes | 860 kg | 2018 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 11:18 PM, 19 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "IRIDIUM 147",
"OBJECT_ID": "2018-047E",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:18:02.259072",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.34217756,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021381,
"INCLINATION": 86.3992,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 28.1977,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 96.7168,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 263.4271,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 43480,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 44309,
"BSTAR": 0.000005010082,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 3.4e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}