HBTSS-SV1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/58960

  • NORAD 58960
  • 2024-028F
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where HBTSS-SV1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches HBTSS-SV1 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 HBTSS-SV1, 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 People's Republic of China LIVE

Where is HBTSS-SV1?

At 6:19:44 PM UTC HBTSS-SV1 was over the People's Republic of China (37.3° N, 120.8° E), 554 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is HBTSS-SV1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 14, 2024.

Can I see HBTSS-SV1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for HBTSS-SV1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Missile Defense Agency
State
United States of America
Built by
L3Harris Space and Intelligence Systems
Launched
Mass
about 1 t
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
6:19 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:19 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
37.3° N, 120.8° E
Altitude
554 km
Speed
7.59 km/s (27,328 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:26 PM UTC
Inclination
40°
Orbital period
95.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.04
This orbit
550 to 562 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,670 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:51 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:51 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for HBTSS-SV1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to HBTSS-SV1 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

HBTSS-SV1 shares its launch, 2024-028, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
HBTSS-SV2Satellite
RAPTOR4Satellite
RAPTOR1Satellite
RAPTOR3Satellite
RAPTOR2Satellite

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, 6:51 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HBTSS-SV1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-028F",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:51:55.247040",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.04266496,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00086547,
  "INCLINATION": 39.9907,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 21.7126,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 147.583,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 212.5497,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 58960,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12884,
  "BSTAR": 0.00071859982,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0001005,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}