Hodhod

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/61777

  • Communications satellite
  • OBJECT AU
  • NORAD 61777
  • 2024-199AU
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Hodhod is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over the Kara Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Hodhod 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 Hodhod, 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.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE

Where is Hodhod?

At 5:36:23 PM UTC Hodhod was over the Arctic Ocean (82.7° N, 148.5° E), 418 km up, moving at 7.67 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Hodhod?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 4, 2024.

Can I see Hodhod?

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

General

Operator
SpaceOMID Co. LLC
State
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Built by
SpaceOMID Co. LLC
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
4 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
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
82.7° N, 148.5° E
Altitude
418 km
Speed
7.67 km/s (27,623 km/h)
Course
west
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:10 PM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
92.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.51
This orbit
401 to 422 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,390 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:55 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:55 AM, 9 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Hodhod 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Hodhod shares its launch, 2024-199, with 42 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
IONOSFERA-M 01Satellite
IONOSFERA-M 02Satellite
OBJECT CCommunications satellite
OBJECT DCommunications satellite
OBJECT ECommunications satellite
OBJECT FCommunications satellite
OBJECT GCommunications satellite
OBJECT HCommunications satellite
OBJECT JCommunications satellite
OBJECT KSatellite
POLYTECH UNIVERSE-5Satellite
COLIBRI-SEarth-watching satellite
POLYTECH UNIVERSE-4Satellite
VIZARD-IONSatellite
OBJECT RSatellite
OBJECT SSatellite
OBJECT TCommunications satellite
OBJECT UEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT VEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT ZCommunications satellite
OBJECT AACommunications satellite
OBJECT ACSatellite
SIT-HSESatellite
SIT-2086Satellite
OBJECT AKSatellite
OBJECT ALEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT ANCommunications satellite
OBJECT AQCommunications satellite
OBJECT ARCommunications satellite
OBJECT ASSatellite
OBJECT ATCommunications satellite
OBJECT AVCommunications satellite
MSU ALTAIRSatellite
OBJECT AXCommunications satellite
OBJECT AYCommunications satellite
OBJECT BBSatellite
RTU MIREA 1Satellite
OBJECT BDCommunications satellite
OBJECT BESatellite
OBJECT BFCommunications satellite
OBJECT BGCommunications satellite
OBJECT BHCommunications 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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Hodhod401 to 422 km93 minutes4 kg2024
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:55 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT AU",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-199AU",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:55:48.450432",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.50644745,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00152858,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2739,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 186.0071,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 107.1196,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 253.1732,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 61777,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 15648,
  "BSTAR": 0.00060730597,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00034988,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}