Pelican 1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/58296

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • PELICAN-1 3001
  • NORAD 58296
  • 2023-174AS
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Pelican 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over the Kara Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Pelican 1 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 Pelican 1, 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 the Caribbean Sea LIVE

Where is Pelican 1?

At 5:35:26 PM UTC Pelican 1 was over the Caribbean Sea (11.5° N, 69.1° W), 380 km up, moving at 7.68 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Pelican 1?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 11, 2023.

Can I see Pelican 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Pelican 1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Planet Labs, Inc. (Planet)
State
United States of America
Built by
Planet Labs, Inc. (Planet)
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
160 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
11.5° N, 69.1° W
Altitude
380 km
Speed
7.68 km/s (27,659 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:11 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
92.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.63
This orbit
374 to 376 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,300 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 1:30 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:30 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Pelican 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Pelican 1 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

Pelican 1 shares its launch, 2023-174, with 32 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
ORBASTRO-PC-1Satellite
LEMUR 2 BASSEarth-watching satellite
PLATEROEarth-watching satellite
BRO-11Satellite
FLOCK 4Q 16Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 11Earth-watching satellite
GENMAT-1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 28Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 27Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X31Earth-watching satellite
FALCONSAT-10Satellite
SPACEVAN-001Satellite
UMBRA-07Earth-watching satellite
SPIPEarth-watching satellite
AETHER-2Communications satellite
ION SCV-013Satellite
IMPULSE-1 MIRASatellite
ICEYE-X35Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 7Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 2Earth-watching satellite
PROTOMETHEEEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 9Earth-watching satellite
OBSERVER-1AEarth-watching satellite
PICO-01A003Communications satellite
FLOCK 4Q 4Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 13Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT CGSatellite
LEMUR 2 JK0903EM1407Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 MJR092620Earth-watching satellite
AAC-HSI-SAT3Earth-watching satellite
AAC-AIS-SAT3Communications satellite
EXO-0Satellite

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
Pelican 1374 to 376 km92 minutes160 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, 1:30 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "PELICAN-1 3001",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-174AS",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:30:40.330656",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.63353606,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00019632,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4021,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 60.4728,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 78.6473,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 281.5006,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 58296,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 16872,
  "BSTAR": 5.05011e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -6.6e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}