- Earth-watching satellite
- OBJECT U
- NORAD 61753
- 2024-199U
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Arctic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Khors No. 3 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 Khors No. 3, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Canada LIVE
Where is Khors No. 3?
At 4:58:26 PM UTC Khors No. 3 was over Canada (55.3° N, 120.7° W), 372 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Khors No. 3?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 4, 2024.
Can I see Khors No. 3?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Khors No. 3, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Baumann Moscow State Technical University
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- Baumann Moscow State Technical University
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 10 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
- 4:58 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:58 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 55.3° N, 120.7° W
- Altitude
- 372 km
- Speed
- 7.69 km/s (27,698 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:06 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- Orbital period
- 91.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.67
- This orbit
- 358 to 369 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,280 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Khors No. 3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Khors No. 3 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.
Launched with
Khors No. 3 shares its launch, 2024-199, with 42 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| IONOSFERA-M 01 | Satellite |
| IONOSFERA-M 02 | Satellite |
| OBJECT C | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT D | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT E | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT F | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT G | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT H | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT J | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT K | Satellite |
| POLYTECH UNIVERSE-5 | Satellite |
| COLIBRI-S | Earth-watching satellite |
| POLYTECH UNIVERSE-4 | Satellite |
| VIZARD-ION | Satellite |
| OBJECT R | Satellite |
| OBJECT S | Satellite |
| OBJECT T | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT V | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT Z | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AA | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AC | Satellite |
| SIT-HSE | Satellite |
| SIT-2086 | Satellite |
| OBJECT AK | Satellite |
| OBJECT AL | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT AN | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AQ | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AR | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AS | Satellite |
| OBJECT AT | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AU | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AV | Communications satellite |
| MSU ALTAIR | Satellite |
| OBJECT AX | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AY | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT BB | Satellite |
| RTU MIREA 1 | Satellite |
| OBJECT BD | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT BE | Satellite |
| OBJECT BF | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT BG | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT BH | Communications 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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khors No. 3 | 358 to 369 km | 92 minutes | 10 kg | 2024 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT U",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-199U",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:32:36.633696",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.67319542,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00076043,
"INCLINATION": 97.2706,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 191.9711,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 96.8468,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 263.3659,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 61753,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 16003,
"BSTAR": 0.0010196342,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00110976,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}