Skykraft 1C

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/55061

  • Communications satellite
  • SKYKRAFT-1C
  • NORAD 55061
  • 2023-001BE
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Skykraft 1C is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over South Sudan

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Skykraft 1C 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 Skykraft 1C, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Skykraft 1C?

At 6:21:24 PM UTC Skykraft 1C was over the Pacific Ocean (55.5° S, 150.9° W), 515 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Skykraft 1C?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 3, 2023.

Can I see Skykraft 1C?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Skykraft 1C, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
SkyKraft
State
Australia, Commonwealth of
Built by
SkyKraft
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
50 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
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
55.5° S, 150.9° W
Altitude
515 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,367 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:42 PM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
94.4 minutes
Orbits per day
15.26
This orbit
478 to 493 km
In shadow
32 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,590 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:43 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:43 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Skykraft 1C, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Skykraft 1C 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.

Launched with

Skykraft 1C shares its launch, 2023-001, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT AEarth-watching satellite
MENUTEarth-watching satellite
BRO-8Satellite
CONNECTA T1.2Communications satellite
BIRKELANDSatellite
OBJECT HSatellite
LYNK TOWER 4Communications satellite
SKYKRAFT-1Satellite
CONTINUUM-1Earth-watching satellite
LYNK TOWER 3Communications satellite
NUSAT-33 (ALBANIA-2)Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-35 (WILLIAMINA)Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-008Satellite
EOSSAT-1Earth-watching satellite
SKYKRAFT-1ACommunications satellite
VIGORIDE 5Satellite
ION SCV-007Satellite
YAM-5Satellite
HUYGENSSatellite
KUWAITSAT-1Satellite
SHARJAHSAT-1Satellite
AAC-AIS-SAT-1Communications satellite
ASTROCAST-0402Communications satellite
ASTROCAST-0401Communications satellite
ASTROCAST-0403Communications satellite
ASTROCAST-0404Communications 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
Skykraft 1C478 to 493 km94 minutes50 kg2023
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:43 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SKYKRAFT-1C",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-001BE",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:43:58.805760",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.25718591,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00103844,
  "INCLINATION": 97.301,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 2.5755,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 8.1022,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 352.0382,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 55061,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 21343,
  "BSTAR": 0.00018045405,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004536,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}