SPACEMOBILE-005

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Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/61046

  • Communications satellite
  • NORAD 61046
  • 2024-163B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SPACEMOBILE-005 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Sargasso Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches SPACEMOBILE-005 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 SPACEMOBILE-005, 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.

Altitude

495 km500 km505 km510 km515 km
SPACEMOBILE-005, one reading a day from Sep 16, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026. The band runs from the lowest point of the orbit to the highest; the line is the middle of it.

One reading a day, worked out from the elements Space-Track publishes.

Summary

Over Germany LIVE

Where is SPACEMOBILE-005?

At 8:57:13 PM UTC SPACEMOBILE-005 was over Germany (52.8° N, 7.9° E), 507 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is SPACEMOBILE-005?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, one of the 12 communications satellites of the BlueBird constellation.

Can I see SPACEMOBILE-005?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SPACEMOBILE-005, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

SPACEMOBILE-005 is one of the 12 communications satellites of the BlueBird constellation. See every BlueBird satellite and how many are above you right now.

Known to its operator as
BlueBird 5
Typical altitude
495 to 535 km

Latest orbital data

Position received
8:57 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:57 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
52.8° N, 7.9° E
Altitude
507 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,432 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 9:24 PM UTC
Inclination
53°
Orbital period
94.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.2
This orbit
499 to 511 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,580 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 17, 2026, 6:43 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 17, 2026, 6:43 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for SPACEMOBILE-005, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
Close approaches to SPACEMOBILE-005 are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
Losing to drag
SPACEMOBILE-005 is falling about 10 m a day, read from the last 2 days of samples.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 17, 2026, 6:43 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SPACEMOBILE-005",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-163B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-17T06:43:10.829280",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.20375115,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00091967,
  "INCLINATION": 52.9735,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 246.0148,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 35.3531,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 324.8071,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 61046,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 11177,
  "BSTAR": 0.00038840869,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00008255,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}