- Earth-watching satellite
- GLOBAL-34
- NORAD 68098
- 2026-043A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Global-34 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 Global-34, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Australia LIVE
Where is Global-34?
At 4:54:24 PM UTC Global-34 was over Australia (19.6° S, 139° E), 464 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Global-34?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 5, 2026.
Can I see Global-34?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Global-34, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- BlackSky Global
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- LeoStella LLC (SFLIN/THALES)
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 138 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
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 19.6° S, 139° E
- Altitude
- 464 km
- Speed
- 7.64 km/s (27,490 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:06 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 42°
- Orbital period
- 93.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.35
- This orbit
- 461 to 465 km
- In shadow
- 29 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,490 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 11:22 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:22 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Global-34, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Global-34 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global-34 | 461 to 465 km | 94 minutes | 138 kg | 2026 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 11:22 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GLOBAL-34",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-043A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T11:22:09.159168",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.35116217,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00031703,
"INCLINATION": 42.0188,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 110.7403,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 253.2594,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 106.7897,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 68098,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 3783,
"BSTAR": 0.00038099232,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00013037,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}