Elara 1

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  • Earth-watching satellite
  • ELARA 1
  • NORAD 64539
  • 2025-135M
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Elara 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the People's Republic of China

Orbit ends over Mongolia

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Elara 1 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 Elara 1, 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

  2. Rendezvous

    Otter Pup 2 came up beside Elara 1, from Jun 23, 2025, as public sources state. Its sources

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Elara 1?

At 4:55:15 PM UTC Elara 1 was over the Atlantic Ocean (15.5° N, 51.9° W), 497 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Elara 1?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 23, 2025.

Can I see Elara 1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Elara 1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Gilmour Space Technologies
State
Australia, Commonwealth of
Built by
Gilmour Space Technologies
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
100 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
15.5° N, 51.9° W
Altitude
497 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,421 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 5:34 PM UTC
Inclination
97.5°
Orbital period
94.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.24
This orbit
488 to 494 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,560 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:44 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:44 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Elara 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Elara 1 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

Elara 1 shares its launch, 2025-135, with 66 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
GOOD ANCESTOR KILAKILACommunications satellite
GHGSAT-C12Earth-watching satellite
DUTHSAT-2Satellite
OBJECT DEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT ESatellite
TPA-1Satellite
CONNECTA IOT-9Communications satellite
UND ROADS 1Satellite
FOSSASAT2E21Communications satellite
OTTER PUP 2Satellite
IOD2_STARTICALCommunications satellite
ARCSTONESpace telescope
PULSAR-0Navigation satellite
USPWSA-DRAGOONCommunications satellite
SKYBEE-A02Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-020Satellite
FORGESTAR-1Satellite
OBJECT VEarth-watching satellite
GHGSAT-C13Earth-watching satellite
UND ROADS 2Satellite
BRO-18Satellite
SATMARCommunications satellite
HYPERFIELD-1BEarth-watching satellite
CONNECTA IOT-12Communications satellite
OBJECT ACEarth-watching satellite
CONNECTA IOT-10Communications satellite
OBJECT AEEarth-watching satellite
CONNECTA IOT-11Communications satellite
QUICK3Satellite
PADRESpace telescope
OBJECT AJCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 KRISHCommunications satellite
HUBBLE 6Communications satellite
AE3VACommunications satellite
TIME FLIESNavigation satellite
LEMUR 2 HUBBLE-4Communications satellite
ARVAKER-3Satellite
ARVAKER-2Satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-3Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-2Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X54Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-5Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X52Earth-watching satellite
MUSAT3Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X56Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-018Satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-6Earth-watching satellite
LYRA-3Communications satellite
ICEYE-X57Earth-watching satellite
GRUS-3ALPHAEarth-watching satellite
YAM-10Satellite
ICEYE-X55Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-4Earth-watching satellite
CAPELLA-17 (ACADIA)Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X53Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 SEJONG-2Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-8Earth-watching satellite
BIFROST-DNKEarth-watching satellite
SATORO-T3Satellite
OBJECT BQSatellite
AE2AEarth-watching satellite
HUBBLE 7Communications satellite
LEMUR 2 HUBBLE-5Communications satellite
LEMUR 2 KARENDARRELLCommunications satellite
LEMUR-2-LUCILLE-ROSECommunications 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
Elara 1488 to 494 km94 minutes100 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, 6:44 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ELARA 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-135M",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:44:50.623872",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.23961169,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00040111,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4874,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 67.303,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 50.2566,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 309.9024,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 64539,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 7681,
  "BSTAR": 0.0005214613,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00012557,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}