Gemini-Pollux

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  • GEMINI-POLLUX
  • NORAD 69000
  • 2026-100W
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Gemini-Pollux is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Gemini-Pollux 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 Gemini-Pollux, 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 India LIVE

Where is Gemini-Pollux?

At 4:55:09 PM UTC Gemini-Pollux was over India (26.3° N, 89.5° E), 592 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Gemini-Pollux?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 3, 2026.

Can I see Gemini-Pollux?

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

General

Operator
National Cheng Kung University
State
China, Republic of (Taiwan)
Built by
National Cheng Kung University
Launched
Mass
4 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
4:55 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:55 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
26.3° N, 89.5° E
Altitude
592 km
Speed
7.57 km/s (27,241 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:14 PM UTC
Inclination
97.7°
Orbital period
96.5 minutes
Orbits per day
14.93
This orbit
585 to 588 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,750 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 12:53 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 12:53 PM, 1 day old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Gemini-Pollux 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

Gemini-Pollux shares its launch, 2026-100, with 44 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
PEARL-1BCommunications satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-7Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-10Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-11Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-12Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-13Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-14Earth-watching satellite
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-15Earth-watching satellite
OT-FOREST-17 TELPERIONEarth-watching satellite
BUSANSATEarth-watching satellite
PEARL-1ACommunications satellite
YAM-11Earth-watching satellite
YAM-16Earth-watching satellite
YAM-13Earth-watching satellite
NULINK-2Communications satellite
ICEYE-X78Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X82Earth-watching satellite
YAM-15Earth-watching satellite
OT-FOREST-16 SOWITASGOHTEarth-watching satellite
FOREST-18 MANGOSHRIKHANDEarth-watching satellite
OT-FOREST-19 PATADASTRAEarth-watching satellite
NULINK-1Communications satellite
YAM-12Earth-watching satellite
GEN1A-1Communications satellite
GEN1A-2Communications satellite
ORBASTRO-JEN1Satellite
BRO-21Satellite
YAM-14Earth-watching satellite
BSLT-3Satellite
DRISHTIEarth-watching satellite
EYCORE-1Earth-watching satellite
JACKAL-004Satellite
CAS500-2Satellite
SNAPPYSatellite
FRONTIERSATSatellite
RAVENSatellite
EDDA-1 300EEarth-watching satellite
PELICAN-8 300FEarth-watching satellite
PELICAN-9 3010Earth-watching satellite
SELENESatellite
HELIOSSatellite
HYDRA-3Earth-watching satellite
QUBE2Communications satellite
BALKAN-2Earth-watching 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, 12:53 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "GEMINI-POLLUX",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-100W",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T12:53:03.909120",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.92713377,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00022451,
  "INCLINATION": 97.7158,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 206.2641,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 99.9845,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 260.1628,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 69000,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 2808,
  "BSTAR": 0.00027429027,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002775,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}