OBJECT Z

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Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/47436

  • NORAD 47436
  • 2021-006Z
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where OBJECT Z is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Romania

Orbit ends over France

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches OBJECT Z 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 OBJECT Z, 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 the Arctic Ocean LIVE

Where is OBJECT Z?

At 6:21:20 PM UTC OBJECT Z was over the Arctic Ocean (78.1° N, 115.4° W), 475 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in sunlight.

What is OBJECT Z?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 24, 2021.

Can I see OBJECT Z?

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

General

Launched
Mass
100 kg
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the launch day and the mass. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
78.1° N, 115.4° W
Altitude
475 km
Speed
7.64 km/s (27,497 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 7:20 PM UTC
Inclination
97.2°
Orbital period
93.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.33
This orbit
455 to 470 km
In shadow
28 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,510 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:31 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:31 AM, 9 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to OBJECT Z 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

OBJECT Z shares its launch, 2021-006, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT LSatellite
OBJECT MSatellite
RIDESHARE ADAPTERSatellite
OBJECT AASatellite
CUBELSatellite
CELESTIS 17/SHERPA-FX1Satellite
HAWK-2CSatellite
ION SCV-002Satellite
HAWK-2ASatellite
HAWK-2BSatellite
GHGSAT-C2Earth-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 8, 2026, 8:31 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT Z",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-006Z",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:31:34.952160",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.33304667,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00108452,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2065,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 350.9062,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 47.2293,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 312.986,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 47436,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 32147,
  "BSTAR": 0.00028402962,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00009082,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}