- Earth-watching satellite
- AFR-1
- NORAD 56964
- 2023-084AJ
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over Brazil
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches ABA First Runner 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 ABA First Runner, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Russia LIVE
Where is ABA First Runner?
At 5:39:28 PM UTC ABA First Runner was over Russia (71° N, 117.7° E), 491 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is ABA First Runner?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 12, 2023.
Can I see ABA First Runner?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for ABA First Runner, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Azista BST Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.
- State
- India, Republic of
- Built by
- Azista BST Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 80 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
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 71° N, 117.7° E
- Altitude
- 491 km
- Speed
- 7.63 km/s (27,450 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:44 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.6°
- Orbital period
- 94.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.3
- This orbit
- 467 to 481 km
- In shadow
- 31 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,540 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:55 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:55 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for ABA First Runner, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to ABA First Runner 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
ABA First Runner shares its launch, 2023-084, with 16 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GEISAT PRECURSOR | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-41 (C PAYNE-G) | Earth-watching satellite |
| GREGOIRE | Earth-watching satellite |
| BLACKJACK ACES-3 | Communications satellite |
| RUNNER-1 (TYVAK-1005) | Earth-watching satellite |
| HOTSAT-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| BLACKJACK ACES-2 | Communications satellite |
| BLACKJACK ACES-1 | Communications satellite |
| ION SCV-011 | Satellite |
| GHOST-3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ORBITER SN3 | Satellite |
| ICEYE-X25 | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-42 (M WONENBURGER) | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR 2 EMBRIONOVIS | Earth-watching satellite |
| AAC-HSI-SAT2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| AAC-AIS-SAT2 | 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABA First Runner | 467 to 481 km | 94 minutes | 80 kg | 2023 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:55 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "AFR-1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-084AJ",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:55:20.227008",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.29675245,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00100596,
"INCLINATION": 97.6472,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 92.8094,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 182.7302,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 177.3884,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 56964,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 18925,
"BSTAR": 0.00027290063,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00007778,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}