SALSAT

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/46495

  • NORAD 46495
  • 2020-068K
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SALSAT is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches SALSAT 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 SALSAT, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Antarctica LIVE

Where is SALSAT?

At 5:35:33 PM UTC SALSAT was over Antarctica (71.4° S, 37.2° E), 503 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is SALSAT?

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

Can I see SALSAT?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SALSAT, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Technical University of Berlin
State
Germany, Federal Republic of
Built by
Technical University of Berlin
Launched
Mass
12 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
71.4° S, 37.2° E
Altitude
503 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,389 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
97.9°
Orbital period
94 minutes
Orbits per day
15.32
This orbit
461 to 475 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,570 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:56 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:56 AM, 10 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to SALSAT 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

SALSAT shares its launch, 2020-068, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
GONETS M 17Communications satellite
GONETS M 18Communications satellite
GONETS M 19Communications satellite
DEKARTSatellite
NORBISatellite
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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:56 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SALSAT",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2020-068K",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:56:08.703168",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.31585493,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00101103,
  "INCLINATION": 97.8854,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 324.3525,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 147.3132,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 212.8736,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 46495,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 33740,
  "BSTAR": 0.00037891653,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00011494,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}