Monitor-3

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/57180

  • OBJECT Q
  • NORAD 57180
  • 2023-091Q
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Monitor-3 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Monitor-3 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 Monitor-3, 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 Russia LIVE

Where is Monitor-3?

At 6:21:33 PM UTC Monitor-3 was over Russia (56° N, 42.9° E), 485 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Monitor-3?

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

Can I see Monitor-3?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Monitor-3, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Moscow State University
State
Russian Federation
Built by
SPUTNIX Ltd
Launched
Mass
5 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, 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
56° N, 42.9° E
Altitude
485 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,457 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:27 PM UTC
Inclination
97.5°
Orbital period
94.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.3
This orbit
465 to 478 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:07 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:07 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Monitor-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Monitor-3 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

Monitor-3 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 MEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT NEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT PCommunications satellite
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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:07 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT Q",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-091Q",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:07:41.438496",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.30368414,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00095382,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4924,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 16.9175,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 316.134,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 43.9143,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 57180,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18631,
  "BSTAR": 0.00060432712,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00017718,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}