NEXTSat 1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/43811

  • Space telescope
  • NEXTSAT-1
  • NORAD 43811
  • 2018-099BF
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where NEXTSat 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches NEXTSat 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 NEXTSat 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 far too faint for the naked eye, and catching it would take a telescope driven to follow a point crossing the sky in minutes. What is worth looking at is what it sends back.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Saudi Arabia LIVE

Where is NEXTSat 1?

At 4:41:06 PM UTC NEXTSat 1 was over Saudi Arabia (20.5° N, 49.4° E), 549 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is NEXTSat 1?

A space telescope in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 3, 2018.

Can I see NEXTSat 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for NEXTSat 1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is what it sees, which its operator publishes.

General

Operator
Korea Advanced Institute for Space Technology
State
Great Han People's Nation
Built by
SatRec Initiative
What it is
Space telescope
Launched
Mass
100 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
4:41 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:41 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
20.5° N, 49.4° E
Altitude
549 km
Speed
7.59 km/s (27,306 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 4:53 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
95.4 minutes
Orbits per day
15.09
This orbit
528 to 544 km
In shadow
26 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,660 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 7:54 PM, 20 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 7:54 PM, 20 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to NEXTSat 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

NEXTSat 1 shares its launch, 2018-099, with 40 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
MINXSS-2Space telescope
SIRION PATHFINDER-2Communications satellite
OBJECT DSatellite
STPSAT-5Satellite
UPPER FREE FLYERSatellite
HAWK-ASatellite
SPAWAR-CAL-OSatellite
CORVUS BC4Earth-watching satellite
AISTECHSAT-2Communications satellite
AO-95Satellite
OBJECT PSatellite
RANGE ASatellite
OBJECT TSatellite
SPAWAR-CAL-RSatellite
SPAWAR-CAL-ORSatellite
M1Earth-watching satellite
SNUSAT-2Satellite
KAZSTSATEarth-watching satellite
SNUGLITESatellite
ITASATSatellite
EAGLET 1Satellite
ESEOSatellite
HAWK-BSatellite
THEASatellite
SKYSAT C12Earth-watching satellite
ASTROCAST-01Communications satellite
HAWK-CSatellite
ICEYE-X2Earth-watching satellite
JY1SATSatellite
SUOMI100Satellite
OBJECT BASatellite
EUCROPISSatellite
POLAR SCOUT YUKONSatellite
CENTAURI-1Communications satellite
OBJECT BESatellite
GLOBAL-2Earth-watching satellite
FALCONSAT-6Satellite
EXCITESatellite
SEAHAWK-1Satellite
OBJECT BSSatellite

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
NEXTSat 1528 to 544 km95 minutes100 kg2018
Fermi488 to 498 km94 minutesabout 4.3 t2008
Hubble465 to 480 km94 minutesabout 12.2 t1990
Cheops679 to 694 km98 minutes280 kg2019
XMM-Newton29,443 to 91,682 km2,873 minutesabout 3.8 t1999
Chandra12,186 to 136,630 km3,809 minutesabout 4.8 t1999

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 7:54 PM, 20 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "NEXTSAT-1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-099BF",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T19:54:28.009440",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.09196955,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00115106,
  "INCLINATION": 97.3906,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 349.4375,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 195.2603,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 164.8281,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43811,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 43354,
  "BSTAR": 0.00015492454,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002404,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}