- Navigation satellite
- NORAD 62850
- 2025-020A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches NVS-02 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 NVS-02, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
In the news
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is NVS-02?
At 4:40:52 PM UTC NVS-02 was over the Atlantic Ocean (19° N, 23.5° W), 36,819 km up, moving at 1.61 km/s and in sunlight.
What is NVS-02?
A navigation satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Jan 29, 2025.
Can I see NVS-02?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for NVS-02, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- State
- India, Republic of
- Built by
- Indian Space Research Organization
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.2 t
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical 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
- 4:40 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:40 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 19° N, 23.5° W
- Altitude
- 36,819 km
- Speed
- 1.61 km/s (5,785 km/h)
- Course
- west
- Light
- In sunlight until 9:09 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 20.2°
- Orbital period
- 660 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.18
- This orbit
- 215 to 37,258 km
- In shadow
- 26 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,970 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 2:19 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 2:19 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for NVS-02, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to NVS-02 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
NVS-02 shares its launch, 2025-020, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GSLV R/B | Rocket body |
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 7, 2026, 2:19 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "NVS-02",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-020A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T02:19:14.804832",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.18187634,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.73747799,
"INCLINATION": 20.1811,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 206.031,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 244.5889,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 25.5648,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 62850,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 1410,
"BSTAR": 0.00023445625,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001705,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}