- Communications satellite
- Military
- SPAINSAT NG II
- NORAD 66144
- 2025-239A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Spainsat NG-2 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 Spainsat NG-2, 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 Colombia LIVE
Where is Spainsat NG-2?
At 5:40:32 PM UTC Spainsat NG-2 was over Colombia (6.1° N, 76.9° W), 44,995 km up, moving at 2.51 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Spainsat NG-2?
A communications satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Oct 24, 2025.
Can I see Spainsat NG-2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Spainsat NG-2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Hisdesat Servicios Estrategicos SA
- State
- Spain (Kingdom of)
- Built by
- Airbus Defense and Space (F) Toulouse
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 6.1 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
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
- 5:40 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:40 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 6.1° N, 76.9° W
- Altitude
- 44,995 km
- Speed
- 2.51 km/s (9,032 km/h)
- Course
- west
- Light
- In sunlight until 1:46 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 12.4°
- Orbital period
- 1,490.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.97
- This orbit
- 3,750 to 69,957 km
- In shadow
- 24 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 8,120 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 1, 2026, 9:13 AM, 7 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 1, 2026, 9:13 AM, 7 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Spainsat NG-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Spainsat NG-2 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spainsat NG-2 | 3,750 to 69,957 km | 1,491 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Hotbird 13F | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.5 t | 2022 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 1, 2026, 9:13 AM, 7 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SPAINSAT NG II",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-239A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-01T09:13:19.539552",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.96595661,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.76573389,
"INCLINATION": 12.4427,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 207.4091,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 240.6208,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 24.6671,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 66144,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 366,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -3.2e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}