- OBJECT P
- NORAD 67261
- 2025-313P
- Low Earth orbit
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 SM-3.1 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 SM-3.1, 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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Antarctica LIVE
Where is SM-3.1?
At 5:35:20 PM UTC SM-3.1 was over Antarctica (76.3° S, 136.9° W), 496 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.
What is SM-3.1?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 28, 2025.
Can I see SM-3.1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SM-3.1, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Special Technology Center
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- Special Technology Center
- Launched
- Mass
- 3 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, 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
- 76.3° S, 136.9° W
- Altitude
- 496 km
- Speed
- 7.62 km/s (27,425 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:48 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 94.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.31
- This orbit
- 462 to 478 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,560 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 11:12 PM, 18 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:12 PM, 18 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for SM-3.1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to SM-3.1 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
SM-3.1 shares its launch, 2025-313, with 49 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT A | Satellite |
| OBJECT B | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT C | Satellite |
| OBJECT D | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT E | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT F | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT G | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT H | Satellite |
| OBJECT J | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT K | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT L | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT M | Satellite |
| OBJECT N | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT Q | Satellite |
| OBJECT R | Satellite |
| OBJECT S | Satellite |
| OBJECT T | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT U | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT V | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT W | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT X | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT Y | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT Z | Satellite |
| OBJECT AA | Satellite |
| OBJECT AB | Satellite |
| OBJECT AC | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AD | Satellite |
| OBJECT AE | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AF | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AG | Satellite |
| OBJECT AH | Satellite |
| OBJECT AJ | Satellite |
| OBJECT AK | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT AL | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT AM | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT AN | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT AP | Earth-watching satellite |
| MULE 4T | Satellite |
| OBJECT AR | Satellite |
| OBJECT AS | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AT | Satellite |
| OBJECT AU | Satellite |
| OBJECT AV | Satellite |
| OBJECT AW | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT AX | Satellite |
| OBJECT AY | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT AZ | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT BA | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT BB | 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 11:12 PM, 18 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT P",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-313P",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:12:29.067840",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.3085919,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00117277,
"INCLINATION": 97.385,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 26.0655,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 204.268,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 155.8011,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 67261,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 4794,
"BSTAR": 0.0010472405,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00031309,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}