DASH 1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/589

  • Military
  • NORAD 589
  • 1963-014D
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

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

Orbit ends over the North Sea

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches DASH 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 DASH 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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is DASH 1?

At 6:51:53 PM UTC DASH 1 was over the Southern Ocean (67.1° S, 160.2° W), 3,716 km up, moving at 6.27 km/s and in sunlight.

What is DASH 1?

A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since May 9, 1963.

Can I see DASH 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for DASH 1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
US Air Force Space Systems Division
State
United States of America
Built by
Lincoln Labs, Mass. Inst of Technology
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
1 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Medium Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:51 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:51 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
67.1° S, 160.2° W
Altitude
3,716 km
Speed
6.27 km/s (22,568 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
87.4°
Orbital period
166.4 minutes
Orbits per day
8.66
This orbit
3,589 to 3,690 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 4,620 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:58 PM, 18 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:58 PM, 18 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to DASH 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

DASH 1 shares its launch, 1963-014, with 30 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
MIDAS 6 (FTV 1169)Satellite
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
ERS 6Satellite
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLES *Debris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris
WESTFORD NEEDLESDebris

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 7, 2026, 11:58 PM, 18 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "DASH 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1963-014D",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:58:22.795680",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 8.65628872,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00503853,
  "INCLINATION": 87.3582,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 177.0271,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 124.0512,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 236.514,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 589,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 600,
  "BSTAR": 0.0043549253,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1.2e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}