- GXIBA-1
- NORAD 67685
- 1998-067YC
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Croatia
Orbit ends over the Bay of Biscay
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Gxiba-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 Gxiba-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 Romania LIVE
Where is Gxiba-1?
At 5:35:46 PM UTC Gxiba-1 was over Romania (47.7° N, 22.2° E), 308 km up, moving at 7.73 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Gxiba-1?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 26, 2025.
Can I see Gxiba-1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Gxiba-1, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla
- State
- United Mexican States
- Built by
- Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla
- Launched
- Mass
- 1 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
- 47.7° N, 22.2° E
- Altitude
- 308 km
- Speed
- 7.73 km/s (27,839 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:09 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 51.6°
- Orbital period
- 90.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.87
- This orbit
- 306 to 319 km
- In shadow
- 36 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,120 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 5:01 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 5:01 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Gxiba-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Gxiba-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
Gxiba-1 shares its launch, 1998-067, with 12 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ISS (ZARYA) | Space station |
| DUPLEX | Satellite |
| KNACKSAT-2 | Satellite |
| LEOPARD | Satellite |
| HMU-SAT2 | Satellite |
| HOKUSHIN1 | Satellite |
| HUCSAT | Communications satellite |
| PROVES-ELECTRA | Satellite |
| OBJECT YL | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT YM | Satellite |
| OBJECT YN | Satellite |
| OBJECT YP | 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, 5:01 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GXIBA-1",
"OBJECT_ID": "1998-067YC",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T05:01:50.730816",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.86570165,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00099588,
"INCLINATION": 51.6165,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 282.1683,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 57.7998,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 302.397,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 67685,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 4277,
"BSTAR": 0.00090690964,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0024162,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}