- Communications satellite
- CENTAURI-8
- NORAD 62714
- 2025-009DK
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Russia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Centauri 8 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 Centauri 8, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Arctic Ocean LIVE
Where is Centauri 8?
At 4:55:57 PM UTC Centauri 8 was over the Arctic Ocean (82.1° N, 14.6° E), 584 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Centauri 8?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 14, 2025.
Can I see Centauri 8?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Centauri 8, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Fleet Space Technologies Pty Ltd
- State
- Australia, Commonwealth of
- Built by
- Terran Orbital
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 25 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
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 82.1° N, 14.6° E
- Altitude
- 584 km
- Speed
- 7.58 km/s (27,274 km/h)
- Course
- west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:55 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 96.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.99
- This orbit
- 567 to 570 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,730 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 12:31 AM, 16 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:31 AM, 16 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Centauri 8, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Centauri 8 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
Centauri 8 shares its launch, 2025-009, with 97 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| BUZZZER-1 | Satellite |
| EDISON-1 | Satellite |
| BALKAN-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| GESAT GEN 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 8 | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT G | Earth-watching satellite |
| INNOCUBE (TUBSAT-31) | Satellite |
| SCOT-1 (SCOT) | Satellite |
| IRIS-F3 | Satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 13 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 9 | Earth-watching satellite |
| OTTER | Satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 7 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 12 | Earth-watching satellite |
| MBZ-SAT | Earth-watching satellite |
| RAY 1.0 | Satellite |
| ION SCV-016 | Satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 11 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ION SCV-014 | Satellite |
| PELICAN-2 3009 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SIGI | Communications satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 26 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 28 | Earth-watching satellite |
| GARAI-A | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 24 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-45 (UZMASAT-1) | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 27 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 29 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ANSER-LS | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 22 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 25 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 23 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LIME | Satellite |
| AE1C | Satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 34 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 21 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 31 | Earth-watching satellite |
| PAUSAT-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| BRO-16 | Satellite |
| OBJECT AY | Navigation satellite |
| OBJECT AZ | Satellite |
| OBJECT BA | Satellite |
| TROLL | Satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 4 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 6 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 5 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LYRA-1 | Communications satellite |
| JAY-D2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 14 | Earth-watching satellite |
| JAY-C | Earth-watching satellite |
| JAY-D1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 10 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SKYBEE-A01 | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT BR | Communications satellite |
| IMPULSE-2 MIRA | Satellite |
| OBJECT BT | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 36 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FOSSASAT2E19 (TAT-E) | Communications satellite |
| ELEVATION-1 | Communications satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 15 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 30 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 18 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 17 | Earth-watching satellite |
| OT-FOREST-3 BJOERNTBW | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 35 | Earth-watching satellite |
| IRIS-F2 | Satellite |
| FLOCK 4G 33 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FOSSASAT2E18 (TAT-A) | Communications satellite |
| BLUEBON | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT CL | Satellite |
| LEMUR 2 WILSON | Communications satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-8 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 STAR-FOX | Communications satellite |
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X42 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR 2 ARIANNA | Communications satellite |
| ICEYE-X41 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FIREFLY-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| NORSAT 4 | Communications satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-5 | Communications satellite |
| FIREFLY-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X45 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR 2 ALISIA | Communications satellite |
| ICEYE-X44 | Earth-watching satellite |
| CENTAURI-7 | Communications satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-6 | Communications satellite |
| FIREFLY-3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR 2 ROUNDTRIPPER | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 MYNAMEISJEFF | Communications satellite |
| SATGUS | Earth-watching satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-7 | Communications satellite |
| FOSSASAT2E20 (TAT-O) | Communications satellite |
| SEDNA-2 | Communications satellite |
| POSAT 2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centauri 8 | 567 to 570 km | 96 minutes | 25 kg | 2025 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 12:31 AM, 16 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CENTAURI-8",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-009DK",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:31:00.094368",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.98550051,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00019752,
"INCLINATION": 97.6947,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 30.2183,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 66.8084,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 293.3347,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 62714,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 9901,
"BSTAR": 0.00040836124,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004833,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}