DSP F2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/5204

  • Military
  • OPS 3811
  • NORAD 5204
  • 1971-039A
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where DSP F2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Kenya

Orbit ends over the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches DSP F2 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 DSP F2, 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 Uganda LIVE

Where is DSP F2?

At 5:36:23 PM UTC DSP F2 was over Uganda (0.7° S, 33.2° E), 36,334 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.

What is DSP F2?

A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since May 5, 1971.

Can I see DSP F2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for DSP F2, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization
State
United States of America
Built by
TRW Inc.
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
903 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Medium 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
0.7° S, 33.2° E
Altitude
36,334 km
Speed
3.06 km/s (11,005 km/h)
Course
west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
0.7°
Orbital period
1,467 minutes
Orbits per day
0.98
This orbit
36,290 to 36,490 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,960 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:00 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:00 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for DSP F2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to DSP F2 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 8, 2026, 6:00 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 3811",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1971-039A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:00:07.299072",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.98160975,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00233701,
  "INCLINATION": 0.6941,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 64.3799,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 224.0865,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 245.6824,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 5204,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 20764,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -5.1e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}