OBJECT B

LIVE
See on the map

Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/56158

  • NORAD 56158
  • 2023-048B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where OBJECT B is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
View on live map

Orbit began over Niger

Orbit ends over Western Sahara

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches OBJECT B 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 OBJECT B, 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 the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is OBJECT B?

At 7:05:40 PM UTC OBJECT B was over the Atlantic Ocean (18.1° N, 16.9° W), 835 km up, moving at 7.52 km/s and in sunlight.

What is OBJECT B?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 31, 2023.

Can I see OBJECT B?

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

General

Launched
Mass
about 1 t
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the launch day and the mass. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
7:05 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:05 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
18.1° N, 16.9° W
Altitude
835 km
Speed
7.52 km/s (27,083 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 7:14 PM UTC
Inclination
63.4°
Orbital period
105.2 minutes
Orbits per day
13.69
This orbit
832 to 1,175 km
In shadow
26 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,160 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:28 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:28 AM, 10 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to OBJECT B 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

OBJECT B shares its launch, 2023-048, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT AEarth-watching 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, 8:28 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT B",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-048B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:28:42.388032",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.68550943,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.02327232,
  "INCLINATION": 63.4057,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 309.2877,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 24.121,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 337.0519,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 56158,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18037,
  "BSTAR": 0.000061941998,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -3.2e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}