CTC-1A

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/66773

  • Communications satellite
  • OBJECT DM
  • NORAD 66773
  • 2025-276DM
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where CTC-1A is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Barents Sea

Orbit ends over the Barents Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches CTC-1A 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 CTC-1A, 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 Canada LIVE

Where is CTC-1A?

At 4:56:00 PM UTC CTC-1A was over Canada (48.3° N, 89.2° W), 507 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is CTC-1A?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 28, 2025.

Can I see CTC-1A?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for CTC-1A, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
SpaceCoin/Space Telecommunications Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
Arrow Science and Technology
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
21 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
4:56 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:56 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
48.3° N, 89.2° W
Altitude
507 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,418 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 5:42 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.22
This orbit
496 to 500 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,580 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 9:25 PM, 19 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 9:25 PM, 19 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for CTC-1A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to CTC-1A 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

CTC-1A shares its launch, 2025-276, with 123 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
FORMOSAT-8AEarth-watching satellite
PELICAN-5 300CEarth-watching satellite
SARI-1Satellite
SARI-2Satellite
HUNITY-1Satellite
ANISCSAT-1Satellite
BRO-17Satellite
PHASMA-LAMARRSatellite
BRO-20Satellite
VEERY-0GEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT LSatellite
AE5RCSatellite
OTTER SDMCommunications satellite
LILIUM-2Satellite
LEMUR-2-DEANANDMAEVECommunications satellite
PHASMA-DIRACSatellite
ION-SCV-022Satellite
6GSTARLABCommunications satellite
MICE-1Communications satellite
AE5RASatellite
LEMUR-2-STAS-GORBUKCommunications satellite
IMPULSE-3 MIRASatellite
WISDOM-ASatellite
AC1-003Satellite
OBJECT AASatellite
OBJECT ABSatellite
NUSAT-52 (MELINA FURMAN)Earth-watching satellite
AE5RBSatellite
YAM-9Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-1Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-2Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-3Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-4Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-5Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-6Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-7Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-8Satellite
PELICAN-6 300DEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 2Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 3Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 4Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 5Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 6Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 7Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 8Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 9Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 10Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 11Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 12Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 13Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 14Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 15Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 16Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 17Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 18Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 19Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 20Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 21Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 22Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 23Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 24Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 25Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 26Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 27Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 28Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 29Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 30Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 31Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 32Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 33Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 34Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 35Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4H 36Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-51 (YVONNE BRILL)Earth-watching satellite
BLACK KITE-1Communications satellite
MERCURY ONE (M1)Satellite
NUSAT-47 (BEA. TINSLEY)Earth-watching satellite
AC1-001Satellite
AC1-002Satellite
UMBRA-11Earth-watching satellite
PIAST-S1Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT CNCommunications satellite
ICEYE-X58Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X59Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X60Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X61Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X62Earth-watching satellite
MAUVESpace telescope
PIAST-S2Earth-watching satellite
PIAST-MEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT CXEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT CYEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT CZSatellite
HYDROGNSS-1Earth-watching satellite
HYDROGNSS-2Earth-watching satellite
NAHLAEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT DDSatellite
T-MICROSAT-1Communications satellite
ACCENTURE-1Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2-TEODORCommunications satellite
SPEQTRESatellite
LILIUM-3Satellite
GYEONGGISAT-1Earth-watching satellite
IHI-SAT2Communications satellite
GENA-OT-1Satellite
OBJECT DPSatellite
LEMUR-2-LAILACommunications satellite
LUNA-1Communications satellite
FORESAIL-1 PRIMESatellite
FOSSASAT2E22Communications satellite
FOSSASAT2E24Communications satellite
LEMUR-2-CELIJO-SB-PKSatellite
LEMUR-2-FINNIANSatellite
LEMUR-2-STARLIGHTCommunications satellite
LEMUR-2-TARTIFLETTECommunications satellite
LEMUR-2-VUKASINSatellite
LEMUR-2-HOTSPUR-TOMCommunications satellite
LEMUR-2-MYRASatellite
FOSSASAT2E23Communications satellite
ION-SCV-021Satellite
FGN-TUG-S01Satellite
FRG-10D1Navigation 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
CTC-1A496 to 500 km95 minutes21 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, 9:25 PM, 19 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT DM",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-276DM",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T21:25:08.791104",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.21577133,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0003161,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4093,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 23.5528,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 83.3331,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 276.8264,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 66773,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5228,
  "BSTAR": 0.00029031,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00006479,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}