Harbinger

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/68440

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • OBJECT AA
  • NORAD 68440
  • 2026-067AA
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Harbinger is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Davis Strait

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Harbinger 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 Harbinger, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Harbinger?

At 4:54:56 PM UTC Harbinger was over the Atlantic Ocean (27.6° S, 27.5° W), 499 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Harbinger?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 30, 2026.

Can I see Harbinger?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Harbinger, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Utah Tech University
State
United States of America
Built by
Utah Tech University
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
5 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
27.6° S, 27.5° W
Altitude
499 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,410 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 5:29 PM UTC
Inclination
97.5°
Orbital period
94.4 minutes
Orbits per day
15.26
This orbit
485 to 486 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,560 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:52 AM, 14 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:52 AM, 14 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Harbinger 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

Harbinger shares its launch, 2026-067, with 95 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
PEAKSATCommunications satellite
JACK-002Earth-watching satellite
OPTISATSatellite
FEMTO-1Satellite
ERMIS2Communications satellite
VIREON-2Earth-watching satellite
BRO-19Satellite
SPOQCCommunications satellite
SPACEVAN-002Satellite
ERMIS3Communications satellite
OBJECT LSatellite
EMISARCommunications satellite
OUT OF THE BOXSatellite
TROOP-F3Satellite
VEGASatellite
DISCO-2Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-53 (JANE GOODALL)Earth-watching satellite
T-MICROSAT-2Communications satellite
VIREON-1Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-019Satellite
HAWK-14BSatellite
AIGLONSAT-1Satellite
OBJECT YSatellite
OBJECT ZSatellite
HAWK-14CSatellite
NUSAT-54(BRANCA MARQUES)Earth-watching satellite
DB-WALI-WMUSatellite
SHARJAHSAT-2Satellite
DB-SKYFORGE CORE-TUSatellite
HADES-SA (SPINNYONE)Communications satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-14Satellite
HAWK-14ASatellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-9Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-13Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-10Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-16Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-11Satellite
AISSAT 4Communications satellite
DB-CHARMS-NDSatellite
PARUS-6U1Satellite
OBJECT ATSatellite
SAL-ESatellite
DB-GLOBE MISSION EARTH-USatellite
COSMOSatellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-12Satellite
IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-15Satellite
GARAI-BEarth-watching satellite
FGN-100-D3Navigation satellite
HOTSAT-2Earth-watching satellite
DB-PRECISIONFLIGHTWORKSPSatellite
PHOBOSSatellite
ERMIS1Communications satellite
LUNA-2Communications satellite
LEMUR-2 DELOITTE-3Communications satellite
FLYLAB 1Satellite
VIGORIDE 7Satellite
BLACK KITE-2Communications satellite
UNICORN-2SEarth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2 JULIA-JOELCommunications satellite
UNICORN-2REarth-watching satellite
FOSSASAT2E25Communications satellite
LEMUR-2 PEGGY-2004Communications satellite
LEMUR-2 IRINACommunications satellite
TORO-3Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2 SEJONG-3Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2 CLARACommunications satellite
VINDLER 2.2Satellite
CAPELLA-20 (ACADIA)Earth-watching satellite
VINDLER 2.3Satellite
AE1ACommunications satellite
VINDLER 2.1Satellite
LEMUR-2 CARROLLEMOCommunications satellite
MIMIR 1Communications satellite
LEMUR-2 DELOITTE-2Communications satellite
LEMUR-2 EMARCHIACommunications satellite
LEMUR-2 POLO-11Communications satellite
ICEYE-X71Earth-watching satellite
GRAVITASSatellite
ICEYE-X73Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X75Earth-watching satellite
AAC-IO1Satellite
SERT3Satellite
ICEYE-X74Earth-watching satellite
N1-ATLASEarth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X76Earth-watching satellite
FLYLAB 2Satellite
ICEYE-X72Earth-watching satellite
GEMS2-AMETHYSTEarth-watching satellite
AEPEXSatellite
CAMOESCommunications satellite
MARS-1Satellite
BESSACommunications satellite
SARAMAGOCommunications satellite
PESSOACommunications satellite
R5-S10Satellite

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
Harbinger485 to 486 km94 minutes5 kg2026
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 2:52 AM, 14 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT AA",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-067AA",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:52:13.896192",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.25686664,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00009647,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4678,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 269.6504,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 66.4787,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 293.6552,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 68440,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 3385,
  "BSTAR": 0.001443051,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00036831,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}