- Military
- NORAD 44078
- 2019-018A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the United States of America
Orbit ends over the United States of America
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches EMISAT 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 EMISAT, 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 Russia LIVE
Where is EMISAT?
At 5:36:39 PM UTC EMISAT was over Russia (60.2° N, 43.6° E), 754 km up, moving at 7.49 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is EMISAT?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 1, 2019.
Can I see EMISAT?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for EMISAT, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- State
- India, Republic of
- Built by
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 436 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, 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
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 60.2° N, 43.6° E
- Altitude
- 754 km
- Speed
- 7.49 km/s (26,946 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:39 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- Orbital period
- 99.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.44
- This orbit
- 730 to 757 km
- In shadow
- 32 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,030 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for EMISAT, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to EMISAT 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "EMISAT",
"OBJECT_ID": "2019-018A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:20:52.375200",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.43650173,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00189945,
"INCLINATION": 98.4485,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 10.1755,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 140.9133,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 219.3434,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 44078,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 40085,
"BSTAR": 0.000044845825,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000109,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}