- SHARJAHSAT-1
- NORAD 55104
- 2023-001CZ
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Sharjah-Sat-1 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 Sharjah-Sat-1, 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 Antarctica LIVE
Where is Sharjah-Sat-1?
At 5:39:07 PM UTC Sharjah-Sat-1 was over Antarctica (76.2° S, 102.6° E), 427 km up, moving at 7.66 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Sharjah-Sat-1?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 3, 2023.
Can I see Sharjah-Sat-1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Sharjah-Sat-1, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Sharjah Academy of Astronomy, Space Science and Technology, U of Sharjah
- State
- United Arab Emirates
- Built by
- Sharjah Academy of Astronomy, Space Science and Technology, U of Sharjah
- Launched
- Mass
- 4 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
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 76.2° S, 102.6° E
- Altitude
- 427 km
- Speed
- 7.66 km/s (27,558 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:45 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- Orbital period
- 92.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.55
- This orbit
- 397 to 402 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,410 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:37 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:37 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Sharjah-Sat-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Sharjah-Sat-1 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
Sharjah-Sat-1 shares its launch, 2023-001, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT A | Earth-watching satellite |
| MENUT | Earth-watching satellite |
| BRO-8 | Satellite |
| CONNECTA T1.2 | Communications satellite |
| BIRKELAND | Satellite |
| OBJECT H | Satellite |
| LYNK TOWER 4 | Communications satellite |
| SKYKRAFT-1 | Satellite |
| CONTINUUM-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LYNK TOWER 3 | Communications satellite |
| NUSAT-33 (ALBANIA-2) | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-35 (WILLIAMINA) | Earth-watching satellite |
| ION SCV-008 | Satellite |
| EOSSAT-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SKYKRAFT-1A | Communications satellite |
| VIGORIDE 5 | Satellite |
| ION SCV-007 | Satellite |
| SKYKRAFT-1C | Communications satellite |
| YAM-5 | Satellite |
| HUYGENS | Satellite |
| KUWAITSAT-1 | Satellite |
| AAC-AIS-SAT-1 | Communications satellite |
| ASTROCAST-0402 | Communications satellite |
| ASTROCAST-0401 | Communications satellite |
| ASTROCAST-0403 | Communications satellite |
| ASTROCAST-0404 | Communications 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:37 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHARJAHSAT-1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-001CZ",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:37:56.743392",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.54971196,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00035743,
"INCLINATION": 97.2999,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 23.4069,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 304.3058,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 55.7857,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 55104,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 21483,
"BSTAR": 0.00068305645,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00045847,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}