Praetorian SDA-608

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  • Communications satellite
  • Military
  • PRAETORIAN SDA_608
  • NORAD 65571
  • 2025-203G
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Praetorian SDA-608 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 India

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Praetorian SDA-608 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 Praetorian SDA-608, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Antarctica LIVE

Where is Praetorian SDA-608?

At 5:35:23 PM UTC Praetorian SDA-608 was over Antarctica (72.2° S, 133.5° E), 978 km up, moving at 7.36 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Praetorian SDA-608?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 10, 2025.

Can I see Praetorian SDA-608?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Praetorian SDA-608, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Space Development Agency
State
United States of America
Built by
York Space Systems
What it is
Communications satellite
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
300 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
72.2° S, 133.5° E
Altitude
978 km
Speed
7.36 km/s (26,503 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:35 PM UTC
Inclination
81.3°
Orbital period
104.1 minutes
Orbits per day
13.84
This orbit
943 to 952 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,380 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 12:36 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 12:36 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Praetorian SDA-608, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Praetorian SDA-608 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

Praetorian SDA-608 shares its launch, 2025-203, with 20 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
PRAETORIAN SDA_602Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_603Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_604Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_605Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_606Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_607Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_609Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_610Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_611Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_612Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_613Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_614Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_615Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_616Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_617Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_618Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_619Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_620Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_621Communications satellite
PRAETORIAN SDA_601Communications 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
Praetorian SDA-608943 to 952 km104 minutes300 kg2025
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 12:36 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "PRAETORIAN SDA_608",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-203G",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T12:36:04.394304",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.83827968,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00060858,
  "INCLINATION": 81.301,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 238.1038,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 160.286,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 199.8533,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 65571,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5851,
  "BSTAR": 0.000005346206,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1.8e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}