- Military
- NORAD 6317
- 1972-101A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Philippine Sea
Orbit ends over the Philippine Sea
In view from you
Nobody watches OPS 9390 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 OPS 9390, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Coral Sea LIVE
Where is OPS 9390?
At 7:03:41 PM UTC OPS 9390 was over the Coral Sea (8.2° S, 144.2° E), 38,508 km up, moving at 2.88 km/s and in sunlight.
What is OPS 9390?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Dec 20, 1972.
Can I see OPS 9390?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for OPS 9390, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 350 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, 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
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 8.2° S, 144.2° E
- Altitude
- 38,508 km
- Speed
- 2.88 km/s (10,375 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 8.8°
- Orbital period
- 1,435.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 30,675 to 40,884 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 8,000 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 3:07 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 3:07 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for OPS 9390, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to OPS 9390 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
OPS 9390 shares its launch, 1972-101, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ATLAS AGENA 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, 3:07 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 9390",
"OBJECT_ID": "1972-101A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T15:07:36.686208",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00302248,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.12108279,
"INCLINATION": 8.8252,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 230.2744,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 119.6847,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 56.6032,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 6317,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2695,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000339,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}