- NORAD 61768
- 2024-199AK
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over the Kara Sea
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches OBJECT AK 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 OBJECT AK, 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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Arabian Sea LIVE
Where is OBJECT AK?
At 5:36:15 PM UTC OBJECT AK was over the Arabian Sea (9.1° N, 58.8° E), 400 km up, moving at 7.67 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is OBJECT AK?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 4, 2024.
Can I see OBJECT AK?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OBJECT AK, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Launched
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the launch day. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 9.1° N, 58.8° E
- Altitude
- 400 km
- Speed
- 7.67 km/s (27,623 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:49 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- Orbital period
- 92.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.56
- This orbit
- 392 to 401 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,340 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:36 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:36 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OBJECT AK, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OBJECT AK 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
OBJECT AK 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 U | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT V | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT Z | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AA | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AC | Satellite |
| SIT-HSE | Satellite |
| SIT-2086 | 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:36 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT AK",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-199AK",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:36:45.372384",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.55953008,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00067191,
"INCLINATION": 97.2714,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 189.2405,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 108.4276,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 251.771,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 61768,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 15670,
"BSTAR": 0.00063886954,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0004447,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}