TAURUS 3

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/66296

  • Communications satellite
  • OBJECT D
  • NORAD 66296
  • 2025-248D
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where TAURUS 3 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Caribbean Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches TAURUS 3 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 TAURUS 3, 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 the Philippine Sea LIVE

Where is TAURUS 3?

At 4:55:08 PM UTC TAURUS 3 was over the Philippine Sea (15.2° N, 136.9° E), 497 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is TAURUS 3?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 2, 2025.

Can I see TAURUS 3?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for TAURUS 3, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Turksat Satellite Comm. and Cable TV Operation AS
State
Turkey, Republic of
Built by
Unknown Turkish satellite operator
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
0.5 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
15.2° N, 136.9° E
Altitude
497 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,425 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:06 PM UTC
Inclination
45.4°
Orbital period
94.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.23
This orbit
495 to 500 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,560 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for TAURUS 3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to TAURUS 3 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

TAURUS 3 shares its launch, 2025-248, with 16 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
KORSAT-4Earth-watching satellite
SEMI-1LCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 AFFIE-WAUWIECommunications satellite
SEMI-1NCommunications satellite
SEMI-1PCommunications satellite
FGN-100-D2Navigation satellite
ICEYE-X65Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X66Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X67Earth-watching satellite
STARCLOUD-1Satellite
OBJECT MSatellite
OBJECT NCommunications satellite
OBJECT PCommunications satellite
OBJECT QCommunications satellite
TOMORROW-S8Earth-watching satellite
TOMORROW-S9Earth-watching 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
TAURUS 3495 to 500 km95 minutes0.5 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 8, 2026, 7:22 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT D",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-248D",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:22:54.338304",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.23317631,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00032539,
  "INCLINATION": 45.4012,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 65.2328,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 160.6706,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 199.4306,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 66296,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5649,
  "BSTAR": 0.00051920524,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00012279,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}