Iridium Next SV176

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/43923

  • Communications satellite
  • IRIDIUM 176
  • NORAD 43923
  • 2019-002B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Iridium Next SV176 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Iridium Next SV176 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 SV176, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Weddell Sea LIVE

Where is Iridium Next SV176?

At 6:41:46 PM UTC Iridium Next SV176 was over the Weddell Sea (80.1° S, 55.1° W), 684 km up, moving at 7.51 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Iridium Next SV176?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 11, 2019.

Can I see Iridium Next SV176?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Iridium Next SV176, 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
Northrop Grumman 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
6:41 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:41 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
80.1° S, 55.1° W
Altitude
684 km
Speed
7.51 km/s (27,047 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 7:32 PM UTC
Inclination
86.6°
Orbital period
97.8 minutes
Orbits per day
14.72
This orbit
649 to 652 km
In shadow
16 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,910 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 1:07 AM, 17 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:07 AM, 17 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Iridium Next SV176, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Iridium Next SV176 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

Iridium Next SV176 shares its launch, 2019-002, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
IRIDIUM 180Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 168Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 173Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 169Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 172Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 175Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 171Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 170Communications satellite
IRIDIUM 167Communications 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
Iridium Next SV176649 to 652 km98 minutes860 kg2019
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 1:07 AM, 17 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "IRIDIUM 176",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2019-002B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:07:07.389984",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.72256764,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00024024,
  "INCLINATION": 86.6046,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 293.3854,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 90.3073,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 269.842,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43923,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 42041,
  "BSTAR": 0.000049386027,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000336,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}