Blue Ring Pathfinder

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/62720

  • BLUE RING PATHFINDER
  • NORAD 62720
  • 2025-011A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Blue Ring Pathfinder is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Blue Ring Pathfinder 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 Blue Ring Pathfinder, 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 the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Blue Ring Pathfinder?

At 8:58:16 AM UTC Blue Ring Pathfinder was over the Indian Ocean (1.2° S, 89.7° E), 16,093 km up, moving at 3.51 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Blue Ring Pathfinder?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Jan 16, 2025.

Can I see Blue Ring Pathfinder?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Blue Ring Pathfinder, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Blue Origin LLC
State
United States of America
Built by
Blue Origin LLC
Launched
Mass
about 4 t
Operating
Orbit class
Highly elliptical 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
8:58 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:58 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
1.2° S, 89.7° E
Altitude
16,093 km
Speed
3.51 km/s (12,640 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
29.9°
Orbital period
374.7 minutes
Orbits per day
3.84
This orbit
2,443 to 19,239 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,090 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 12:12 PM, 20 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:12 PM, 20 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Blue Ring Pathfinder has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 12:12 PM, 20 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "BLUE RING PATHFINDER",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-011A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T12:12:01.378656",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 3.8430843,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.48770917,
  "INCLINATION": 29.8852,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 91.1744,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 33.1748,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 349.5996,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 62720,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 2542,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -3.8e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}