Skylink-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/62672

  • Communications satellite
  • OBJECT BR
  • NORAD 62672
  • 2025-009BR
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Skylink-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Honduras

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Skylink-2 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 Skylink-2, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Skylink-2?

At 4:54:59 PM UTC Skylink-2 was over the Pacific Ocean (25.2° S, 95.5° W), 501 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Skylink-2?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 14, 2025.

Can I see Skylink-2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Skylink-2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Hello Space Systems Teknoloji A.S.
State
Turkey, Republic of
Built by
Hello Space Systems Teknoloji A.S.
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
0.8 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
4:54 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:54 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
25.2° S, 95.5° W
Altitude
501 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,410 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 5:22 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.24
This orbit
488 to 494 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,570 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:39 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:39 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Skylink-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Skylink-2 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

Skylink-2 shares its launch, 2025-009, with 97 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
BUZZZER-1Satellite
EDISON-1Satellite
BALKAN-1Earth-watching satellite
GESAT GEN 1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 8Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT GEarth-watching satellite
INNOCUBE (TUBSAT-31)Satellite
SCOT-1 (SCOT)Satellite
IRIS-F3Satellite
FLOCK 4G 13Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 9Earth-watching satellite
OTTERSatellite
FLOCK 4G 7Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 12Earth-watching satellite
MBZ-SATEarth-watching satellite
RAY 1.0Satellite
ION SCV-016Satellite
FLOCK 4G 11Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-014Satellite
PELICAN-2 3009Earth-watching satellite
SIGICommunications satellite
FLOCK 4G 26Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 28Earth-watching satellite
GARAI-AEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 24Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 3Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-45 (UZMASAT-1)Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 27Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 29Earth-watching satellite
ANSER-LSEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 22Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 25Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 23Earth-watching satellite
LIMESatellite
AE1CSatellite
FLOCK 4G 34Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 21Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 31Earth-watching satellite
PAUSAT-1Earth-watching satellite
BRO-16Satellite
OBJECT AYNavigation satellite
OBJECT AZSatellite
OBJECT BASatellite
TROLLSatellite
FLOCK 4G 4Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 6Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 2Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 5Earth-watching satellite
LYRA-1Communications satellite
JAY-D2Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 14Earth-watching satellite
JAY-CEarth-watching satellite
JAY-D1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 10Earth-watching satellite
SKYBEE-A01Earth-watching satellite
IMPULSE-2 MIRASatellite
OBJECT BTEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 36Earth-watching satellite
FOSSASAT2E19 (TAT-E)Communications satellite
ELEVATION-1Communications satellite
FLOCK 4G 15Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 30Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 18Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 17Earth-watching satellite
OT-FOREST-3 BJOERNTBWEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4G 35Earth-watching satellite
IRIS-F2Satellite
FLOCK 4G 33Earth-watching satellite
FOSSASAT2E18 (TAT-A)Communications satellite
BLUEBONEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT CLSatellite
LEMUR 2 WILSONCommunications satellite
CONNECTA IOT-8Communications satellite
LEMUR 2 STAR-FOXCommunications satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-1Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X42Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 ARIANNACommunications satellite
ICEYE-X41Earth-watching satellite
FIREFLY-1Earth-watching satellite
NORSAT 4Communications satellite
CONNECTA IOT-5Communications satellite
FIREFLY-2Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X45Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 ALISIACommunications satellite
ICEYE-X44Earth-watching satellite
CENTAURI-7Communications satellite
CONNECTA IOT-6Communications satellite
FIREFLY-3Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 ROUNDTRIPPERCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 MYNAMEISJEFFCommunications satellite
SATGUSEarth-watching satellite
CENTAURI-8Communications satellite
CONNECTA IOT-7Communications satellite
FOSSASAT2E20 (TAT-O)Communications satellite
SEDNA-2Communications satellite
POSAT 2Communications 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
Skylink-2488 to 494 km94 minutes0.8 kg2025
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 7, 2026, 11:39 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT BR",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-009BR",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T11:39:09.364320",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.23887529,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00045647,
  "INCLINATION": 97.3857,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 28.4046,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 170.6911,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 189.4411,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 62672,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 15820,
  "BSTAR": 0.00022117195,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000527,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}