Monolith

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/49052

  • Military
  • MONOLITH
  • NORAD 49052
  • 2021-068A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Monolith is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Australia

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Monolith 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 Monolith, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Monolith?

At 5:36:03 PM UTC Monolith was over the Pacific Ocean (21.3° N, 164.7° W), 533 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Monolith?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 29, 2021.

Can I see Monolith?

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

General

Operator
USAF SMC/DoD Space Test Program
State
United States of America
Built by
US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate)
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
20 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, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
21.3° N, 164.7° W
Altitude
533 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,360 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:31 PM UTC
Inclination
37°
Orbital period
95.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.1
This orbit
535 to 541 km
In shadow
28 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,630 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:48 PM, 20 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:48 PM, 20 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Monolith 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 8:48 PM, 20 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "MONOLITH",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-068A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:48:44.496288",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.10365732,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0004015,
  "INCLINATION": 37.0208,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 121.4091,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 312.4133,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 47.6273,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 49052,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 28900,
  "BSTAR": 0.0004708,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00007808,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}