- Communications satellite
- NORAD 61047
- 2024-163C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches SPACEMOBILE-001 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-001, 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
One reading a day, worked out from the elements Space-Track publishes.
Summary
Over Poland LIVE
Where is SPACEMOBILE-001?
At 8:57:13 PM UTC SPACEMOBILE-001 was over Poland (53.1° N, 16.5° E), 507 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is SPACEMOBILE-001?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, one of the 12 communications satellites of the BlueBird constellation.
Can I see SPACEMOBILE-001?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SPACEMOBILE-001, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
SPACEMOBILE-001 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 1
- Typical altitude
- 495 to 535 km
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 8:57 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 8:57 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 53.1° N, 16.5° E
- Altitude
- 507 km
- Speed
- 7.62 km/s (27,428 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 9:23 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 53°
- Orbital period
- 94.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.2
- This orbit
- 500 to 510 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, 8:16 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 17, 2026, 8:16 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for SPACEMOBILE-001, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- Close approaches to SPACEMOBILE-001 are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
- Losing to drag
- SPACEMOBILE-001 has not fallen measurably over the last 2 days of samples.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 17, 2026, 8:16 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SPACEMOBILE-001",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-163C",
"EPOCH": "2026-09-17T08:16:25.667328",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.20389348,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00077935,
"INCLINATION": 52.9694,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 245.3933,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 43.851,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 316.3101,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 61047,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 11178,
"BSTAR": -0.000004196588,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.0000042,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}