- Communications satellite
- Military
- PRAETORIAN SDA_614
- NORAD 65577
- 2025-203N
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the People's Republic of China
Orbit ends over India
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Praetorian SDA-614 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-614, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Praetorian SDA-614?
At 5:35:59 PM UTC Praetorian SDA-614 was over the Indian Ocean (56.8° S, 118.1° E), 969 km up, moving at 7.37 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Praetorian SDA-614?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 10, 2025.
Can I see Praetorian SDA-614?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Praetorian SDA-614, 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
- 56.8° S, 118.1° E
- Altitude
- 969 km
- Speed
- 7.37 km/s (26,521 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:40 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 81.3°
- Orbital period
- 104 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.85
- This orbit
- 939 to 950 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,360 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 12:50 AM, 16 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:50 AM, 16 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Praetorian SDA-614, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Praetorian SDA-614 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
Praetorian SDA-614 shares its launch, 2025-203, with 20 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| PRAETORIAN SDA_602 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_603 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_604 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_605 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_606 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_607 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_608 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_609 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_610 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_611 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_612 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_613 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_615 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_616 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_617 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_618 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_619 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_620 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_621 | Communications satellite |
| PRAETORIAN SDA_601 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praetorian SDA-614 | 939 to 950 km | 104 minutes | 300 kg | 2025 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 12:50 AM, 16 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "PRAETORIAN SDA_614",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-203N",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:50:59.097408",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.84787845,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0007386,
"INCLINATION": 81.3018,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 237.215,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 151.7348,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 208.4211,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 65577,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 5862,
"BSTAR": 0.000049108286,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.7e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}