- Military
- NORAD 44344
- 2019-036F
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the People's Republic of China
Orbit ends over Turkey
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches DSX 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 DSX, 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 the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is DSX?
At 6:20:50 PM UTC DSX was over the Atlantic Ocean (2.2° N, 22.9° W), 7,689 km up, moving at 5.55 km/s and in sunlight.
What is DSX?
A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jun 25, 2019.
Can I see DSX?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for DSX, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate)
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Microsat Systems Inc (MSI)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 668 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 2.2° N, 22.9° W
- Altitude
- 7,689 km
- Speed
- 5.55 km/s (19,976 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:13 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 42.3°
- Orbital period
- 316.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 4.54
- This orbit
- 5,993 to 12,049 km
- In shadow
- 23 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 5,950 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 DSX, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to DSX 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
DSX shares its launch, 2019-036, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| PROX-1 | Satellite |
| NPSAT1 | Satellite |
| OTB | Satellite |
| FORMOSAT7-3/COSMIC2-3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FALCON HEAVY R/B | Rocket body |
| FORMOSAT7-1/COSMIC2-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FORMOSAT7-4/COSMIC2-4 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FORMOSAT7-2/COSMIC2-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FORMOSAT7-6/COSMIC2-6 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FORMOSAT7-5/COSMIC2-5 | Earth-watching 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": "DSX",
"OBJECT_ID": "2019-036F",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T10:37:18.747840",
"MEAN_MOTION": 4.54371467,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.19663998,
"INCLINATION": 42.283,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 298.3251,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 77.2755,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 303.9242,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 44344,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 12230,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.8e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}