Al'tair

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  • MSU ALTAIR
  • NORAD 61779
  • 2024-199AW
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Al'tair is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Kyrgyzstan

Orbit ends over the Caspian Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Al'tair 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 Al'tair, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Antarctica LIVE

Where is Al'tair?

At 4:58:24 PM UTC Al'tair was over Antarctica (77.7° S, 85.6° W), 482 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Al'tair?

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

Can I see Al'tair?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Al'tair, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Moscow State University
State
Russian Federation
Built by
NILACT DOSAAF LLC
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, 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
77.7° S, 85.6° W
Altitude
482 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,428 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:42 PM UTC
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
93.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.4
This orbit
436 to 453 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:24 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:24 AM, 10 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Al'tair 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

Al'tair 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 AUCommunications satellite
OBJECT AVCommunications satellite
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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:24 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "MSU ALTAIR",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-199AW",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:24:06.717024",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.3950167,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00129934,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2786,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 180.7232,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 138.9768,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 221.2458,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 61779,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 15926,
  "BSTAR": 0.00036807415,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00014416,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}