- Communications satellite
- SKIF-D
- NORAD 54153
- 2022-139D
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Algeria
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Skif-D 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 Skif-D, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Russia LIVE
Where is Skif-D?
At 7:03:54 PM UTC Skif-D was over Russia (71.2° N, 122.8° E), 8,070 km up, moving at 5.26 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Skif-D?
A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Oct 22, 2022.
Can I see Skif-D?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Skif-D, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Russian Aviation and Space Agency
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- OAO M. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 160 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Medium 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
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 71.2° N, 122.8° E
- Altitude
- 8,070 km
- Speed
- 5.26 km/s (18,925 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 89.9°
- Orbital period
- 287.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 5
- This orbit
- 8,047 to 8,069 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 6,030 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 6, 2026, 1:21 PM, 2 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 1:21 PM, 2 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Skif-D, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Skif-D 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.
Launched with
Skif-D shares its launch, 2022-139, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GONETS-M 23 | Communications satellite |
| GONETS-M 24 | Communications satellite |
| GONETS-M 25 | Communications satellite |
| FREGAT 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skif-D | 8,047 to 8,069 km | 288 minutes | 160 kg | 2022 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 6, 2026, 1:21 PM, 2 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SKIF-D",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-139D",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-06T13:21:18.537120",
"MEAN_MOTION": 5.00436254,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00075389,
"INCLINATION": 89.9442,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 96.6096,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 149.9437,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 210.1369,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 54153,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 7123,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1.9e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}