Zorkiy-2M

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/57177

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • OBJECT M
  • NORAD 57177
  • 2023-091M
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Zorkiy-2M is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over Mozambique

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Zorkiy-2M 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 Zorkiy-2M, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Canada LIVE

Where is Zorkiy-2M?

At 6:21:34 PM UTC Zorkiy-2M was over Canada (81° N, 76° W), 515 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Zorkiy-2M?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 27, 2023.

Can I see Zorkiy-2M?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Zorkiy-2M, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
SPUTNIX Ltd
State
Russian Federation
Built by
SPUTNIX Ltd
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
20 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
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
81° N, 76° W
Altitude
515 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,400 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 7:18 PM UTC
Inclination
97.5°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.22
This orbit
487 to 504 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,590 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:54 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:54 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Zorkiy-2M, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Zorkiy-2M 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

Zorkiy-2M shares its launch, 2023-091, with 38 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
METEOR M2-3Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT CSatellite
OBJECT DCommunications satellite
OBJECT ECommunications satellite
OBJECT FSatellite
OBJECT GSatellite
OBJECT HCommunications satellite
OBJECT JSatellite
OBJECT KCommunications satellite
OBJECT LCommunications satellite
OBJECT NEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT PCommunications satellite
OBJECT QSatellite
OBJECT RCommunications satellite
OBJECT SSatellite
OBJECT TCommunications satellite
OBJECT USatellite
OBJECT VSatellite
OBJECT WSatellite
OBJECT XEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT YSatellite
OBJECT ZCommunications satellite
OBJECT ABSatellite
OBJECT ACCommunications satellite
OBJECT ADSatellite
OBJECT AECommunications satellite
OBJECT AFSatellite
OBJECT AGSatellite
A-SEANSAT-PG1Communications satellite
OBJECT AKCommunications satellite
OBJECT ALSatellite
OBJECT AMCommunications satellite
OBJECT ANSatellite
OBJECT APEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT AQCommunications satellite
OBJECT AUCommunications satellite
OBJECT AVSatellite
METEOR M2-3 DEBDebris

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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Zorkiy-2M487 to 504 km95 minutes20 kg2023
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:54 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT M",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-091M",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:54:09.406368",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.22474221,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00119558,
  "INCLINATION": 97.492,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 10.8062,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 339.9216,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 20.1548,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 57177,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18591,
  "BSTAR": 0.00048250841,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00011129,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}