Zafar-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/67280

  • OBJECT AJ
  • NORAD 67280
  • 2025-313AJ
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Zafar-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Zafar-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 Zafar-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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is Zafar-2?

At 5:35:20 PM UTC Zafar-2 was over the Southern Ocean (70.8° S, 128.2° W), 515 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Zafar-2?

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

Can I see Zafar-2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Zafar-2, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Iranian Space Agency
State
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Built by
Iran University of Science and Technology
Launched
Mass
90 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
70.8° S, 128.2° W
Altitude
515 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,389 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:50 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.24
This orbit
484 to 500 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,590 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:18 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:18 AM, 15 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Zafar-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Zafar-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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Zafar-2 shares its launch, 2025-313, with 49 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT ASatellite
OBJECT BCommunications satellite
OBJECT CSatellite
OBJECT DCommunications satellite
OBJECT EEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT FEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT GEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT HSatellite
OBJECT JCommunications satellite
OBJECT KCommunications satellite
OBJECT LCommunications satellite
OBJECT MSatellite
OBJECT NCommunications satellite
OBJECT PSatellite
OBJECT QSatellite
OBJECT RSatellite
OBJECT SSatellite
OBJECT TCommunications satellite
OBJECT UCommunications satellite
OBJECT VEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT WEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT XEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT YCommunications satellite
OBJECT ZSatellite
OBJECT AASatellite
OBJECT ABSatellite
OBJECT ACCommunications satellite
OBJECT ADSatellite
OBJECT AECommunications satellite
OBJECT AFCommunications satellite
OBJECT AGSatellite
OBJECT AHSatellite
OBJECT AKEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT ALEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT AMEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT ANEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT APEarth-watching satellite
MULE 4TSatellite
OBJECT ARSatellite
OBJECT ASCommunications satellite
OBJECT ATSatellite
OBJECT AUSatellite
OBJECT AVSatellite
OBJECT AWEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT AXSatellite
OBJECT AYCommunications satellite
OBJECT AZEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT BACommunications satellite
OBJECT BBCommunications 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 8, 2026, 2:18 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT AJ",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-313AJ",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:18:01.082304",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.23605773,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00119794,
  "INCLINATION": 97.3876,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 24.6355,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 209.3098,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 150.7469,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 67280,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 4785,
  "BSTAR": 0.00032284752,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00007674,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}