- NORAD 49047
- 2021-062E
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Mali
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches OBJECT E 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 E, 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
- Close approach
On Tuesday, Oct 27 at 10:55 PM UTC, a fragment of CZ-6A (NORAD 61277) was to pass within 222 m of Object E (NORAD 49047). The chance was about 1 in 5,000.
Summary
Over Greenland LIVE
Where is OBJECT E?
At 7:03:29 PM UTC OBJECT E was over Greenland (73.6° N, 33.8° W), 809 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OBJECT E?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 4, 2021.
Can I see OBJECT E?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OBJECT E, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Launched
- Mass
- 1 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
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 73.6° N, 33.8° W
- Altitude
- 809 km
- Speed
- 7.46 km/s (26,842 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.7°
- Orbital period
- 100.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.28
- This orbit
- 792 to 800 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,120 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:55 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:55 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OBJECT E, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- 1 reported. No close approach to OBJECT E is reported for the next three 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
OBJECT E shares its launch, 2021-062, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| FENGYUN 3E | Earth-watching satellite |
| CZ-4C R/B | Rocket body |
| OBJECT D | 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, 6:55 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT E",
"OBJECT_ID": "2021-062E",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:55:55.847712",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.27892674,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00052135,
"INCLINATION": 98.6575,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 330.4847,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 20.924,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 339.2153,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 49047,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 27636,
"BSTAR": 0.000067043868,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000122,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}