- SUOMI100
- NORAD 43804
- 2018-099AY
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Canada
Orbit ends over Canada
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Suomi-100 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 Suomi-100, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Canada LIVE
Where is Suomi-100?
At 4:54:32 PM UTC Suomi-100 was over Canada (67.1° N, 91° W), 476 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Suomi-100?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 3, 2018.
Can I see Suomi-100?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Suomi-100, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Aalto University
- State
- Republic of Finland
- Built by
- Aalto University
- Launched
- Mass
- 1 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 67.1° N, 91° W
- Altitude
- 476 km
- Speed
- 7.64 km/s (27,497 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:46 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 94 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.31
- This orbit
- 461 to 476 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,510 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 10:37 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:37 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Suomi-100, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Suomi-100 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
Suomi-100 shares its launch, 2018-099, with 40 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| MINXSS-2 | Space telescope |
| SIRION PATHFINDER-2 | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT D | Satellite |
| STPSAT-5 | Satellite |
| UPPER FREE FLYER | Satellite |
| HAWK-A | Satellite |
| SPAWAR-CAL-O | Satellite |
| CORVUS BC4 | Earth-watching satellite |
| AISTECHSAT-2 | Communications satellite |
| AO-95 | Satellite |
| OBJECT P | Satellite |
| RANGE A | Satellite |
| OBJECT T | Satellite |
| SPAWAR-CAL-R | Satellite |
| SPAWAR-CAL-OR | Satellite |
| M1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SNUSAT-2 | Satellite |
| KAZSTSAT | Earth-watching satellite |
| SNUGLITE | Satellite |
| ITASAT | Satellite |
| EAGLET 1 | Satellite |
| ESEO | Satellite |
| HAWK-B | Satellite |
| THEA | Satellite |
| SKYSAT C12 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ASTROCAST-01 | Communications satellite |
| HAWK-C | Satellite |
| ICEYE-X2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| JY1SAT | Satellite |
| OBJECT BA | Satellite |
| EUCROPIS | Satellite |
| POLAR SCOUT YUKON | Satellite |
| CENTAURI-1 | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT BE | Satellite |
| NEXTSAT-1 | Space telescope |
| GLOBAL-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FALCONSAT-6 | Satellite |
| EXCITE | Satellite |
| SEAHAWK-1 | Satellite |
| OBJECT BS | 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 7, 2026, 10:37 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SUOMI100",
"OBJECT_ID": "2018-099AY",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T10:37:41.673216",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.31433855,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00105145,
"INCLINATION": 97.4018,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 11.4617,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 126.9903,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 233.2303,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 43804,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 43532,
"BSTAR": 0.00057819088,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00017524,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}