SPACEMOBILE-004

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Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/61049

  • Communications satellite
  • NORAD 61049
  • 2024-163E
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SPACEMOBILE-004 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over France

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches SPACEMOBILE-004 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-004, 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-004, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is SPACEMOBILE-004?

At 8:57:13 PM UTC SPACEMOBILE-004 was over the Pacific Ocean (53° S, 159.5° W), 529 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is SPACEMOBILE-004?

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

Can I see SPACEMOBILE-004?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SPACEMOBILE-004, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

SPACEMOBILE-004 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 4
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° S, 159.5° W
Altitude
529 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,342 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 9:39 PM UTC
Inclination
53°
Orbital period
94.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.21
This orbit
498 to 511 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,620 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 17, 2026, 11:15 PM, 21 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 17, 2026, 11:15 PM, 21 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for SPACEMOBILE-004, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
Close approaches to SPACEMOBILE-004 are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
Losing to drag
SPACEMOBILE-004 is falling about 7 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, 11:15 PM, 21 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SPACEMOBILE-004",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-163E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-17T23:15:07.021728",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.20504573,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00094773,
  "INCLINATION": 52.9742,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 242.3544,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 66.4835,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 293.7154,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 61049,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 11188,
  "BSTAR": 0.00064109442,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00013905,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}