EDC-03

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/69003

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • YAM-12
  • NORAD 69003
  • 2026-100Z
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where EDC-03 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Canada

Orbit ends over Canada

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches EDC-03 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 EDC-03, 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 Weddell Sea LIVE

Where is EDC-03?

At 4:40:53 PM UTC EDC-03 was over the Weddell Sea (80.1° S, 39.1° W), 626 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.

What is EDC-03?

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

Can I see EDC-03?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for EDC-03, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Loft Orbital
State
United States of America
Built by
Airbus Defense and Space (F) Toulouse
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
150 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
4:40 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:40 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
80.1° S, 39.1° W
Altitude
626 km
Speed
7.54 km/s (27,158 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:28 PM UTC
Inclination
97.8°
Orbital period
96.6 minutes
Orbits per day
14.9
This orbit
593 to 594 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,810 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 20 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 20 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for EDC-03, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to EDC-03 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

EDC-03 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
GEMINI-POLLUXSatellite
OT-FOREST-19 PATADASTRAEarth-watching satellite
NULINK-1Communications 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
EDC-03593 to 594 km97 minutes150 kg2026
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
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 20 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "YAM-12",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-100Z",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:00:01.000224",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.90474549,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001065,
  "INCLINATION": 97.7722,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 206.8347,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 72.3202,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 263.1261,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 69003,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 557,
  "BSTAR": -0.0056239031,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00054472,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}