- OTB-3-GAZELLE
- NORAD 54023
- 2022-127A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Northwest Passage
Orbit ends over Canada
In view from you
Nobody watches GAzelle 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 GAzelle, 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
Summary
Over the Southern Ocean LIVE
Where is GAzelle?
At 1:05:26 PM UTC GAzelle was over the Southern Ocean (69.5° S, 145.1° W), 784 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GAzelle?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 7, 2022.
Can I see GAzelle?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GAzelle, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- General Atomics Electromagnetic System Group/Englewood
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- General Atomics Electromagnetic System Group/Englewood
- Launched
- Mass
- 118 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 1:05 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 1:05 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 69.5° S, 145.1° W
- Altitude
- 784 km
- Speed
- 7.46 km/s (26,845 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- Orbital period
- 99.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.43
- This orbit
- 737 to 757 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,080 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 9, 2026, 5:16 AM, 7 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 5:16 AM, 7 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GAzelle, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GAzelle has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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
GAzelle shares its launch, 2022-127, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ELECTRON KICK STAGE R/B | Rocket body |
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 9, 2026, 5:16 AM, 7 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OTB-3-GAZELLE",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-127A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-09T05:16:24.355776",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.42714017,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00142419,
"INCLINATION": 98.4079,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 302.8201,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 109.5128,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 250.7602,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 54023,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 21527,
"BSTAR": 0.000046676178,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000112,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}