- Navigation satellite
- NORAD 56759
- 2023-076A
- Geostationary
Current orbit
View on live mapOne orbit takes a day, as long as the Earth takes to turn, so NVS-01 keeps above 129.5° E of the equator and never crosses the sky.
It never rises or sets
NVS-01 turns with the Earth, standing over one longitude of the equator. From anywhere it can be seen at all it is up day and night, in the same direction, so there is no pass to wait for.
No brightness has been published for NVS-01, 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 wait for: it never crosses the sky. From the half of the Earth it stands over it keeps the same point day and night, and from the other half it never rises at all.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
In the news
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is NVS-01?
At 4:55:08 PM UTC NVS-01 was over the Pacific Ocean (0.4° S, 129.5° E), 35,819 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.
What is NVS-01?
A navigation satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since May 29, 2023.
Can I see NVS-01?
No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: NVS-01 stands over 129.5° E of the equator; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- State
- India, Republic of
- Built by
- Indian Space Research Organization
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.2 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Geostationary
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
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 0.4° S, 129.5° E
- Altitude
- 35,819 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,059 km/h)
- Course
- Stands over 129.5° E
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 1.8°
- Orbital period
- 1,436 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,752 to 35,821 km
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:09 AM, 8 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:09 AM, 8 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for NVS-01, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to NVS-01 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
NVS-01 shares its launch, 2023-076, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GSLV 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 8, 2026, 8:09 AM, 8 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "NVS-01",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-076A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:09:24.909696",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00275926,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00080947,
"INCLINATION": 1.8344,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 237.308,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 15.8598,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 46.2292,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 56759,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 1256,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000328,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}