Global-12

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/49772

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • GLOBAL-12
  • NORAD 49772
  • 2021-115BA
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Global-12 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over Kazakhstan

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Global-12 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 Global-12, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Global-12?

At 1:46:44 AM UTC Global-12 was over the Pacific Ocean (25.6° N, 147.4° E), 379 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Global-12?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 2, 2021.

Can I see Global-12?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Global-12, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
BlackSky Global
State
United States of America
Built by
LeoStella LLC (SFLIN/THALES)
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
55 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
1:46 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
1:46 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
25.6° N, 147.4° E
Altitude
379 km
Speed
7.69 km/s (27,673 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 2:24 AM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
92.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.63
This orbit
378 to 380 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,290 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:16 AM, 17 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:16 AM, 17 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Global-12, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Global-12 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 2:43 PM, 9 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

Global-12 shares its launch, 2021-115, with 46 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-3219Communications satellite
STARLINK-3218Communications satellite
STARLINK-3242Communications satellite
STARLINK-3240Communications satellite
STARLINK-3251Communications satellite
STARLINK-3249Communications satellite
STARLINK-3246Communications satellite
STARLINK-3252Communications satellite
STARLINK-3238Communications satellite
STARLINK-3113Communications satellite
STARLINK-3148Communications satellite
STARLINK-3225Communications satellite
STARLINK-3143Communications satellite
STARLINK-3155Communications satellite
STARLINK-3226Communications satellite
STARLINK-3244Communications satellite
STARLINK-3202Communications satellite
STARLINK-3239Communications satellite
STARLINK-3231Communications satellite
STARLINK-3241Communications satellite
STARLINK-3233Communications satellite
STARLINK-3247Communications satellite
STARLINK-3248Communications satellite
STARLINK-3250Communications satellite
STARLINK-3236Communications satellite
STARLINK-3229Communications satellite
STARLINK-3209Communications satellite
STARLINK-3200Communications satellite
STARLINK-3193Communications satellite
STARLINK-3210Communications satellite
STARLINK-3207Communications satellite
STARLINK-3197Communications satellite
STARLINK-3194Communications satellite
STARLINK-3204Communications satellite
STARLINK-3199Communications satellite
STARLINK-3203Communications satellite
STARLINK-3195Communications satellite
STARLINK-3198Communications satellite
STARLINK-3227Communications satellite
STARLINK-3190Communications satellite
STARLINK-3192Communications satellite
STARLINK-3196Communications satellite
STARLINK-3208Communications satellite
STARLINK-3191Communications satellite
STARLINK-3201Communications satellite
GLOBAL-13Earth-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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Global-12378 to 380 km92 minutes55 kg2021
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:16 AM, 17 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "GLOBAL-12",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-115BA",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:16:22.710720",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.63182859,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00014802,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1927,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 66.7932,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 97.3802,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 262.7382,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 49772,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 27837,
  "BSTAR": 0.00089078183,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0008325,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}