- OBJECT L
- NORAD 58927
- 2024-024L
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Kazakhstan
Orbit ends over Kazakhstan
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Unknown payload? 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 Unknown payload?, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Unknown payload??
At 5:39:47 PM UTC Unknown payload? was over the Indian Ocean (26.1° S, 69.2° E), 459 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Unknown payload??
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 3, 2024.
Can I see Unknown payload??
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Unknown payload?, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- China Long March Rocket Co. Ltd.
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- China Long March Rocket Co. Ltd.
- Launched
- Mass
- 20 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
- 26.1° S, 69.2° E
- Altitude
- 459 km
- Speed
- 7.64 km/s (27,493 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:07 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- Orbital period
- 93.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.39
- This orbit
- 444 to 450 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,480 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:24 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:24 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Unknown payload?, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Unknown payload? 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
Unknown payload? shares its launch, 2024-024, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT B | Earth-watching satellite |
| NEXSAT-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ZHIXING-2A | 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, 8:24 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT L",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-024L",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:24:42.712704",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.38659429,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00048884,
"INCLINATION": 97.2924,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 18.1236,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 47.1298,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 313.0357,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 58927,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 13047,
"BSTAR": 0.0014336036,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00055008,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}