- NESS
- NORAD 58020
- 2023-155E
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Russia
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches N3SS 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 N3SS, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE
Where is N3SS?
At 5:39:26 PM UTC N3SS was over the Arctic Ocean (81.1° N, 32° E), 472 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is N3SS?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 9, 2023.
Can I see N3SS?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for N3SS, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- National Space Research Center
- State
- French Republic
- Built by
- U-Space
- 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
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 81.1° N, 32° E
- Altitude
- 472 km
- Speed
- 7.64 km/s (27,500 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:39 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.6°
- Orbital period
- 93.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.35
- This orbit
- 455 to 463 km
- In shadow
- 36 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,500 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:46 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:46 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for N3SS, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to N3SS 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
N3SS shares its launch, 2023-155, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| T2V | Earth-watching satellite |
| FORMOSAT-7R/TRITON | Earth-watching satellite |
| ANSER-FLW2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ANSER-FLW1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| CSC-2 | Satellite |
| CSC-1 | Satellite |
| PRETTY | Earth-watching satellite |
| MACSAT | Communications satellite |
| PVCC | Earth-watching 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, 4:46 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "NESS",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-155E",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:46:05.732544",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.34523742,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00061008,
"INCLINATION": 97.5864,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 41.5424,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 59.3189,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 300.8654,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 58020,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 17054,
"BSTAR": 0.0010565646,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00035396,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}