- GRAVITAS
- NORAD 68495
- 2026-067CH
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Gulf of Carpentaria
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Gravitas 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 Gravitas, 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 Gravitas?
At 4:54:32 PM UTC Gravitas was over Antarctica (67.3° S, 121° E), 661 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Gravitas?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 30, 2026.
Can I see Gravitas?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Gravitas, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- K2 Space
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- K2 Space
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2 t
- 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
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 67.3° S, 121° E
- Altitude
- 661 km
- Speed
- 7.57 km/s (27,245 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:56 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 99.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.53
- This orbit
- 586 to 838 km
- In shadow
- 31 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,870 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 10:00 PM, 18 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:00 PM, 18 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Gravitas, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Gravitas 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
Gravitas shares its launch, 2026-067, with 95 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| PEAKSAT | Communications satellite |
| JACK-002 | Earth-watching satellite |
| OPTISAT | Satellite |
| FEMTO-1 | Satellite |
| ERMIS2 | Communications satellite |
| VIREON-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| BRO-19 | Satellite |
| SPOQC | Communications satellite |
| SPACEVAN-002 | Satellite |
| ERMIS3 | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT L | Satellite |
| EMISAR | Communications satellite |
| OUT OF THE BOX | Satellite |
| TROOP-F3 | Satellite |
| VEGA | Satellite |
| DISCO-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-53 (JANE GOODALL) | Earth-watching satellite |
| T-MICROSAT-2 | Communications satellite |
| VIREON-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ION SCV-019 | Satellite |
| HAWK-14B | Satellite |
| AIGLONSAT-1 | Satellite |
| OBJECT Y | Satellite |
| OBJECT Z | Satellite |
| OBJECT AA | Earth-watching satellite |
| HAWK-14C | Satellite |
| NUSAT-54(BRANCA MARQUES) | Earth-watching satellite |
| DB-WALI-WMU | Satellite |
| SHARJAHSAT-2 | Satellite |
| DB-SKYFORGE CORE-TU | Satellite |
| HADES-SA (SPINNYONE) | Communications satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-14 | Satellite |
| HAWK-14A | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-9 | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-13 | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-10 | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-16 | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-11 | Satellite |
| AISSAT 4 | Communications satellite |
| DB-CHARMS-ND | Satellite |
| PARUS-6U1 | Satellite |
| OBJECT AT | Satellite |
| SAL-E | Satellite |
| DB-GLOBE MISSION EARTH-U | Satellite |
| COSMO | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-12 | Satellite |
| IRIDE-MS1-EAG2-15 | Satellite |
| GARAI-B | Earth-watching satellite |
| FGN-100-D3 | Navigation satellite |
| HOTSAT-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| DB-PRECISIONFLIGHTWORKSP | Satellite |
| PHOBOS | Satellite |
| ERMIS1 | Communications satellite |
| LUNA-2 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR-2 DELOITTE-3 | Communications satellite |
| FLYLAB 1 | Satellite |
| VIGORIDE 7 | Satellite |
| BLACK KITE-2 | Communications satellite |
| UNICORN-2S | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR-2 JULIA-JOEL | Communications satellite |
| UNICORN-2R | Earth-watching satellite |
| FOSSASAT2E25 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR-2 PEGGY-2004 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR-2 IRINA | Communications satellite |
| TORO-3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR-2 SEJONG-3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR-2 CLARA | Communications satellite |
| VINDLER 2.2 | Satellite |
| CAPELLA-20 (ACADIA) | Earth-watching satellite |
| VINDLER 2.3 | Satellite |
| AE1A | Communications satellite |
| VINDLER 2.1 | Satellite |
| LEMUR-2 CARROLLEMO | Communications satellite |
| MIMIR 1 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR-2 DELOITTE-2 | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR-2 EMARCHIA | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR-2 POLO-11 | Communications satellite |
| ICEYE-X71 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X73 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X75 | Earth-watching satellite |
| AAC-IO1 | Satellite |
| SERT3 | Satellite |
| ICEYE-X74 | Earth-watching satellite |
| N1-ATLAS | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X76 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLYLAB 2 | Satellite |
| ICEYE-X72 | Earth-watching satellite |
| GEMS2-AMETHYST | Earth-watching satellite |
| AEPEX | Satellite |
| CAMOES | Communications satellite |
| MARS-1 | Satellite |
| BESSA | Communications satellite |
| SARAMAGO | Communications satellite |
| PESSOA | Communications satellite |
| R5-S10 | 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, 10:00 PM, 18 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GRAVITAS",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-067CH",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:00:01.999584",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.5333049,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.01778672,
"INCLINATION": 97.7122,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 260.5989,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 199.3373,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 248.0419,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 68495,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 559,
"BSTAR": -0.012678428,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00064503,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}