USA 485

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/62756

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • Military
  • NORAD 62756
  • 2025-014X
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where USA 485 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches USA 485 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 USA 485, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is USA 485?

At 7:04:19 PM UTC USA 485 was over the Pacific Ocean (40.2° S, 138.6° W), 346 km up, moving at 7.7 km/s and in sunlight.

What is USA 485?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 21, 2025.

Can I see USA 485?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for USA 485, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
National Reconnaissance Office
State
United States of America
Built by
SpaceX (Seattle)
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
800 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, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
7:04 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:04 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
40.2° S, 138.6° W
Altitude
346 km
Speed
7.7 km/s (27,727 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 7:37 PM UTC
Inclination
43°
Orbital period
91.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.78
This orbit
337 to 339 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,210 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for USA 485, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to USA 485 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

USA 485 shares its launch, 2025-014, with 22 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-32806Communications satellite
STARLINK-32329Communications satellite
STARLINK-32774Communications satellite
STARLINK-32802Communications satellite
STARLINK-32796Communications satellite
STARLINK-32805Communications satellite
STARLINK-32770Communications satellite
STARLINK-32775Communications satellite
STARLINK-32800Communications satellite
STARLINK-32758Communications satellite
STARLINK-32746Communications satellite
STARLINK-32780Communications satellite
STARLINK-32765Communications satellite
STARLINK-32762Communications satellite
STARLINK-32761Communications satellite
STARLINK-32763Communications satellite
STARLINK-32759Communications satellite
STARLINK-32756Communications satellite
STARLINK-32751Communications satellite
STARLINK-32740Communications satellite
STARLINK-32745Communications satellite
USA 486Earth-watching 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
USA 485337 to 339 km91 minutes800 kg2025
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "USA 485",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-014X",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:22:58.975392",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.77961715,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00011968,
  "INCLINATION": 43,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 314.1462,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 248.5636,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 111.5107,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 62756,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 10352,
  "BSTAR": 0.0027546289,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00511202,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}