Fifi

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59135

  • VSP RF A1
  • NORAD 59135
  • 2024-043AP
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Fifi 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

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Fifi 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 Fifi, 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 Philippine Sea LIVE

Where is Fifi?

At 6:21:18 PM UTC Fifi was over the Philippine Sea (17.6° N, 124.4° E), 501 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Fifi?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 4, 2024.

Can I see Fifi?

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

General

Operator
Aerospacelab
State
Belgium, Kingdom of
Built by
Aerospacelab
Launched
Mass
200 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
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
17.6° N, 124.4° E
Altitude
501 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,418 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:40 PM UTC
Inclination
97.6°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.22
This orbit
494 to 497 km
In shadow
32 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,560 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:48 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:48 AM, 9 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Fifi 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

Fifi shares its launch, 2024-043, with 33 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
HORACIOEarth-watching satellite
MUSAT2Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X38Earth-watching satellite
METHANESATEarth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X37Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X36Earth-watching satellite
PE2_FLT2 (TYVAK-0262)Satellite
PE2_FLT1 (TYVAK-0261)Satellite
RROCI-2Earth-watching satellite
BRO-13Satellite
BRO-12Satellite
SONATE-2Satellite
CONTECSAT-1Earth-watching satellite
TIGER-8Communications satellite
LYNK TOWER 5Communications satellite
NUSAT-44 MARIA MITCHELLEarth-watching satellite
LYNK TOWER 6Communications satellite
VSP ROSEEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT ADSatellite
YAM-6Satellite
JACKAL-01Satellite
OBJECT AGSatellite
APEX ARIES 1Satellite
GHOST-5Earth-watching satellite
MESON-1Satellite
LIZZIESATSatellite
GHOST-4Earth-watching satellite
JACKAL-02Satellite
VSP RF C1Satellite
VSP RF B1Satellite
TIGER-7Communications satellite
LEMUR 2 JOHNNYTRUONGCommunications satellite
HAMMEREarth-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, 8:48 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "VSP RF A1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-043AP",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:48:47.210112",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.22409407,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00019721,
  "INCLINATION": 97.5779,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 89.7191,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 85.6287,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 274.5174,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59135,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 14893,
  "BSTAR": 0.00019236143,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004373,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}