- Earth-watching satellite
- NORAD 64585
- 2025-135BK
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Labrador Sea
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9 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 IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Barents Sea LIVE
Where is IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9?
At 4:54:56 PM UTC IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9 was over the Barents Sea (81.1° N, 63.7° E), 604 km up, moving at 7.56 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 23, 2025.
Can I see IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Italian Space Agency
- State
- Italian Republic
- Built by
- ArgoTec srl
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 65 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
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 81.1° N, 63.7° E
- Altitude
- 604 km
- Speed
- 7.56 km/s (27,230 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 4:54 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 96.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.92
- This orbit
- 588 to 589 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,770 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:52 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:52 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9 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
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9 shares its launch, 2025-135, with 66 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GOOD ANCESTOR KILAKILA | Communications satellite |
| GHGSAT-C12 | Earth-watching satellite |
| DUTHSAT-2 | Satellite |
| OBJECT D | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT E | Satellite |
| TPA-1 | Satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-9 | Communications satellite |
| UND ROADS 1 | Satellite |
| FOSSASAT2E21 | Communications satellite |
| OTTER PUP 2 | Satellite |
| IOD2_STARTICAL | Communications satellite |
| ELARA 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ARCSTONE | Space telescope |
| PULSAR-0 | Navigation satellite |
| USPWSA-DRAGOON | Communications satellite |
| SKYBEE-A02 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ION SCV-020 | Satellite |
| FORGESTAR-1 | Satellite |
| OBJECT V | Earth-watching satellite |
| GHGSAT-C13 | Earth-watching satellite |
| UND ROADS 2 | Satellite |
| BRO-18 | Satellite |
| SATMAR | Communications satellite |
| HYPERFIELD-1B | Earth-watching satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-12 | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AC | Earth-watching satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-10 | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AE | Earth-watching satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-11 | Communications satellite |
| QUICK3 | Satellite |
| PADRE | Space telescope |
| OBJECT AJ | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 KRISH | Communications satellite |
| HUBBLE 6 | Communications satellite |
| AE3VA | Communications satellite |
| TIME FLIES | Navigation satellite |
| LEMUR 2 HUBBLE-4 | Communications satellite |
| ARVAKER-3 | Satellite |
| ARVAKER-2 | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X54 | Earth-watching satellite |
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-5 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X52 | Earth-watching satellite |
| MUSAT3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X56 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ION SCV-018 | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-6 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LYRA-3 | Communications satellite |
| ICEYE-X57 | Earth-watching satellite |
| GRUS-3ALPHA | Earth-watching satellite |
| YAM-10 | Satellite |
| ICEYE-X55 | Earth-watching satellite |
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-4 | Earth-watching satellite |
| CAPELLA-17 (ACADIA) | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X53 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR 2 SEJONG-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-8 | Earth-watching satellite |
| BIFROST-DNK | Earth-watching satellite |
| SATORO-T3 | Satellite |
| OBJECT BQ | Satellite |
| AE2A | Earth-watching satellite |
| HUBBLE 7 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 HUBBLE-5 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 KARENDARRELL | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR-2-LUCILLE-ROSE | Communications 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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9 | 588 to 589 km | 96 minutes | 65 kg | 2025 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:52 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "IRIDE-MS2-HEO-9",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-135BK",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:52:37.356672",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.92098799,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00007743,
"INCLINATION": 97.7893,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 65.0095,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 125.8097,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 234.3194,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 64585,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 7538,
"BSTAR": 0.00024623162,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002446,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}