Gonets-M No. 28L

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/46487

  • Communications satellite
  • GONETS M 18
  • NORAD 46487
  • 2020-068B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Gonets-M No. 28L is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Greenland Sea

Orbit ends over Greenland

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Gonets-M No. 28L 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 Gonets-M No. 28L, 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 Greenland LIVE

Where is Gonets-M No. 28L?

At 6:20:06 PM UTC Gonets-M No. 28L was over Greenland (73.9° N, 39.3° W), 1,490 km up, moving at 7.13 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Gonets-M No. 28L?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 28, 2020.

Can I see Gonets-M No. 28L?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Gonets-M No. 28L, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Gonets Satellite Systems
State
Russian Federation
Built by
OAO M. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
225 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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
73.9° N, 39.3° W
Altitude
1,490 km
Speed
7.13 km/s (25,679 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:30 PM UTC
Inclination
82.5°
Orbital period
115.9 minutes
Orbits per day
12.43
This orbit
1,475 to 1,508 km
In shadow
31 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 3,010 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:16 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:16 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Gonets-M No. 28L, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Gonets-M No. 28L 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

Gonets-M No. 28L shares its launch, 2020-068, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
GONETS M 17Communications satellite
GONETS M 19Communications satellite
DEKARTSatellite
NORBISatellite
SALSATSatellite
ICEYE-X7Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X6Earth-watching satellite
NETSAT-4Satellite
NETSAT-3Satellite
NETSAT-1Satellite
NETSAT-2Satellite

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
Gonets-M No. 28L1,475 to 1,508 km116 minutes225 kg2020
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, 8:16 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "GONETS M 18",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2020-068B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:16:15.675168",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 12.42877208,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00210903,
  "INCLINATION": 82.4913,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 256.8723,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 77.0905,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 283.2528,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 46487,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 27705,
  "BSTAR": 0.00038858544,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.4e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}