ACS3

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59588

  • ACS 3
  • NORAD 59588
  • 2024-077B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where ACS3 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

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches ACS3 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 ACS3, 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 Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is ACS3?

At 5:36:25 PM UTC ACS3 was over the Southern Ocean (66.3° S, 94.8° W), 902 km up, moving at 7.41 km/s and in sunlight.

What is ACS3?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 23, 2024.

Can I see ACS3?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for ACS3, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field
State
United States of America
Built by
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field
Launched
Mass
16.1 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
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
66.3° S, 94.8° W
Altitude
902 km
Speed
7.41 km/s (26,676 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 6:23 PM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
102.9 minutes
Orbits per day
14
This orbit
828 to 956 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,270 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:03 PM, 18 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:03 PM, 18 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for ACS3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to ACS3 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

ACS3 shares its launch, 2024-077, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
NEONSAT-1Earth-watching satellite
ELECTRON KICK STAGE 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 11:03 PM, 18 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ACS 3",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-077B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:03:03.934080",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.99617111,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.008814,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2775,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 199.8637,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 8.8382,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 351.4315,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59588,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12811,
  "BSTAR": 0.025106,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00038076,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}