- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- WSF-M
- NORAD 59481
- 2024-070A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Antarctica
Orbit ends over Antarctica
In view from you
Nobody watches WSF-M 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 WSF-M 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 for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is WSF-M SV1?
At 5:33:43 PM UTC WSF-M SV1 was over the Atlantic Ocean (25.4° S, 11.5° E), 831 km up, moving at 7.44 km/s and in sunlight.
What is WSF-M SV1?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 11, 2024.
Can I see WSF-M SV1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for WSF-M SV1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- US Space Force Space Systems Command
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Ball Aerospace
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.2 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, what it is for, 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
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 25.4° S, 11.5° E
- Altitude
- 831 km
- Speed
- 7.44 km/s (26,773 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.7°
- Orbital period
- 101.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.21
- This orbit
- 817 to 823 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,160 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for WSF-M SV1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to WSF-M 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSF-M SV1 | 817 to 823 km | 101 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2024 |
| MetOp-SG A1 | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4 t | 2025 |
| Metop-B | 818 to 823 km | 101 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2012 |
| Metop-C | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2018 |
| Sentinel-5P | 826 to 828 km | 101 minutes | 820 kg | 2017 |
| Suomi NPP | 825 to 829 km | 101 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "WSF-M",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-070A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:32:28.276224",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.20743654,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00036643,
"INCLINATION": 98.7186,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 318.3257,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 268.03,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 92.0457,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 59481,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 13356,
"BSTAR": 0.000050851335,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.6e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}