Sheffer Yu.P.

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/57208

  • Communications satellite
  • OBJECT AU
  • NORAD 57208
  • 2023-091AU
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Sheffer Yu.P. is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over Antarctica

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Sheffer Yu.P. 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 Sheffer Yu.P., 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is Sheffer Yu.P.?

At 6:21:17 PM UTC Sheffer Yu.P. was over the Southern Ocean (62.4° S, 130° W), 455 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Sheffer Yu.P.?

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

Can I see Sheffer Yu.P.?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Sheffer Yu.P., and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Sitronics Group
State
Russian Federation
Built by
SPUTNIX Ltd
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
3 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
62.4° S, 130° W
Altitude
455 km
Speed
7.64 km/s (27,504 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:37 PM UTC
Inclination
97.5°
Orbital period
93.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.44
This orbit
428 to 433 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,470 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:25 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:25 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Sheffer Yu.P., so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Sheffer Yu.P. 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

Sheffer Yu.P. 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 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 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
Sheffer Yu.P.428 to 433 km93 minutes3 kg2023
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:25 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT AU",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-091AU",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:25:06.481632",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.44196767,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00040976,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4958,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 27.1903,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 262.808,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 97.2702,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 57208,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18698,
  "BSTAR": 0.00093125406,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00042826,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}