Marafon-D GVM

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59072

  • Communications satellite
  • OBJECT V
  • NORAD 59072
  • 2024-039V
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Marafon-D GVM is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Australia

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Marafon-D GVM 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 Marafon-D GVM, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Antarctica LIVE

Where is Marafon-D GVM?

At 6:31:58 PM UTC Marafon-D GVM was over Antarctica (87.2° S, 141.7° E), 763 km up, moving at 7.47 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Marafon-D GVM?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 29, 2024.

Can I see Marafon-D GVM?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Marafon-D GVM, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
NPO Applied Mechanics
State
Russian Federation
Built by
NPO Applied Mechanics
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
50 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
6:31 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:31 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
87.2° S, 141.7° E
Altitude
763 km
Speed
7.47 km/s (26,906 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 7:25 PM UTC
Inclination
89°
Orbital period
99.6 minutes
Orbits per day
14.46
This orbit
724 to 746 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,050 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Marafon-D GVM, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Marafon-D GVM 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

Marafon-D GVM shares its launch, 2024-039, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
METEOR M2-4Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT QEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT RCommunications satellite
OBJECT SCommunications satellite
OBJECT TCommunications satellite
OBJECT UCommunications satellite
FREGAT R/BRocket body

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
Marafon-D GVM724 to 746 km100 minutes50 kg2024
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT V",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-039V",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:20:09.239136",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.46061123,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00154549,
  "INCLINATION": 88.9801,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 266.444,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 200.7762,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 159.2817,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59072,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 14201,
  "BSTAR": 0.000076143939,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000287,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}