- NORAD 44625
- 2019-067B
- Geostationary
Current orbit
View on live mapOne orbit takes a day, as long as the Earth takes to turn, so MEV-1 keeps above 23.4° E of the equator and never crosses the sky.
It never rises or sets
MEV-1 turns with the Earth, standing over one longitude of the equator. From anywhere it can be seen at all it is up day and night, in the same direction, so there is no pass to wait for.
No brightness has been published for MEV-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 wait for: it never crosses the sky. From the half of the Earth it stands over it keeps the same point day and night, and from the other half it never rises at all.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
- Rendezvous
MEV-1 came up beside INTELSAT 901, Feb 25, 2020 to Apr 9, 2025, as public sources state. Its sources
Summary
Over the Democratic Republic of the Congo LIVE
Where is MEV-1?
At 6:20:49 PM UTC MEV-1 was over the Democratic Republic of the Congo (0.1° S, 23.4° E), 35,796 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.
What is MEV-1?
A satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since Oct 9, 2019.
Can I see MEV-1?
No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: MEV-1 stands over 23.4° E of the equator.
General
- Operator
- Space Logistics LLC
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems Group (SSG)
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.3 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Geostationary
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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 0.1° S, 23.4° E
- Altitude
- 35,796 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,066 km/h)
- Course
- Stands over 23.4° E
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 0.1°
- Orbital period
- 1,436.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,774 to 35,800 km
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 5, 2026, 7:26 PM, 2 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 5, 2026, 7:26 PM, 2 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for MEV-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to MEV-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.
Launched with
MEV-1 shares its launch, 2019-067, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| EUTE 5W B | Communications satellite |
| BREEZE-M R/B | Rocket body |
| BREEZE-M DEB (TANK) | Debris |
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 5, 2026, 7:26 PM, 2 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "MEV-1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2019-067B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-05T19:26:27.387744",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00273784,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0003027,
"INCLINATION": 0.0752,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 71.0687,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 124.3437,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 164.6032,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 44625,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 85,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000136,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}