Orbiter SN3

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  • ORBITER SN3
  • NORAD 56960
  • 2023-084AE
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Orbiter SN3 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Caribbean Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches Orbiter SN3 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 Orbiter SN3, 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 Ross Sea LIVE

Where is Orbiter SN3?

At 6:36:23 PM UTC Orbiter SN3 was over the Ross Sea (78.8° S, 174.3° E), 486 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Orbiter SN3?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 12, 2023.

Can I see Orbiter SN3?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Orbiter SN3, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Launcher Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
Launcher Inc.
Launched
Mass
200 kg
Operating
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
6:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
78.8° S, 174.3° E
Altitude
486 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,432 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 6:51 PM UTC
Inclination
97.6°
Orbital period
93.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.37
This orbit
448 to 458 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:01 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:01 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Orbiter SN3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Orbiter SN3 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

Orbiter SN3 shares its launch, 2023-084, with 16 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
GEISAT PRECURSOREarth-watching satellite
NUSAT-41 (C PAYNE-G)Earth-watching satellite
GREGOIREEarth-watching satellite
BLACKJACK ACES-3Communications satellite
RUNNER-1 (TYVAK-1005)Earth-watching satellite
HOTSAT-1Earth-watching satellite
BLACKJACK ACES-2Communications satellite
BLACKJACK ACES-1Communications satellite
ION SCV-011Satellite
GHOST-3Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X25Earth-watching satellite
AFR-1Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-42 (M WONENBURGER)Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 EMBRIONOVISEarth-watching satellite
AAC-HSI-SAT2Earth-watching satellite
AAC-AIS-SAT2Communications 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, 8:01 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ORBITER SN3",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-084AE",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:01:19.130880",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.36601496,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00076033,
  "INCLINATION": 97.6459,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 98.4,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 168.9773,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 191.1638,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 56960,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18961,
  "BSTAR": 0.00037557852,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00013355,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}