TORO

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/60530

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • OBJECT BQ
  • NORAD 60530
  • 2024-149BQ
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where TORO is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Greenland Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches TORO 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 TORO, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE

Where is TORO?

At 5:39:14 PM UTC TORO was over the Arctic Ocean (81.4° N, 9.2° E), 589 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.

What is TORO?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 16, 2024.

Can I see TORO?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for TORO, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Taiwan Space Agency
State
China, Republic of (Taiwan)
Built by
NanoAvionics
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
5 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
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
81.4° N, 9.2° E
Altitude
589 km
Speed
7.57 km/s (27,263 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 6:39 PM UTC
Inclination
97.7°
Orbital period
96.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.97
This orbit
573 to 575 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,740 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 3:36 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 3:36 PM, 1 day old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to TORO 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

TORO shares its launch, 2024-149, with 87 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT ASatellite
WARATAH SEED-1Satellite
PHISAT 2Satellite
LEMUR 2 TOMATOKECHUPCommunications satellite
CONNECTA IOT-1Communications satellite
LOPENSatellite
ROCKSatellite
CONNECTA IOT-3Communications satellite
QUBECommunications satellite
WREN-1Satellite
TOMORROW-S1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 18Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 7Earth-watching satellite
TOMORROW-S2Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 36Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 25Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 31Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 20Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 23Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 17Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-50 (NANCY ROMAN)Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 22Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 34Earth-watching satellite
TYCHEEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 32Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-48 (H. LEAVITT)Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-49(K.VON NEUMANN)Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 11Earth-watching satellite
YAM-7Satellite
FLOCK 4BE 24Earth-watching satellite
LUR-1Earth-watching satellite
TANAGER-1 4001Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 29Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT AUCommunications satellite
FLOCK 4BE 2Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 13Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 27Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 9Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 6Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 14Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 28Earth-watching satellite
CONNECTA IOT-2Communications satellite
CONNECTA IOT-4Communications satellite
ORESAT0.5Satellite
DEIMOSEarth-watching satellite
CUAVA-2Satellite
ERNSTSatellite
HYPSO-2Earth-watching satellite
LEMU-NGEEarth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 STELLACommunications satellite
SATELIOT_2Communications satellite
NIGHTJARCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 MARHISYAMCommunications satellite
SATELIOT_4Communications satellite
PICO-02A021Communications satellite
ICEYE-X43Earth-watching satellite
HAWK-10ASatellite
UMBRA-09Earth-watching satellite
QPS-SAR-8 AMATERU-IVEarth-watching satellite
ARCTIC WEATHER SATELLITEEarth-watching satellite
CAPELLA-15 (ACADIA)Earth-watching satellite
HAWK-10BSatellite
ICEYE-X39Earth-watching satellite
UMBRA-10Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X33Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X40Earth-watching satellite
SATELIOT_1Communications satellite
BRO-14Satellite
SATELIOT_3Communications satellite
BRO-15Satellite
UM5-RIBATSatellite
UM5-EOSATEarth-watching satellite
KANYINICommunications satellite
FLOCK 4BE 5Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 3Earth-watching satellite
HYPERFIELD-1AEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4BE 19Earth-watching satellite
PTD-4Satellite
ION SCV-012Satellite
GNOMES-5Communications satellite
HAWK-10CSatellite
LEMUR 2 AHMED-ASRARCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 LLOYDCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 SQUIRRELCOMMCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 SIERRINICommunications satellite
SEDNA-1Communications 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
TORO573 to 575 km96 minutes5 kg2024
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 3:36 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT BQ",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-149BQ",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T15:36:04.404672",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.96843043,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00012069,
  "INCLINATION": 97.6661,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 23.5682,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 95.3995,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 264.7364,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 60530,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12141,
  "BSTAR": 0.00013432758,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001482,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}