Lynk Tower Gen1A-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/69005

  • Communications satellite
  • GEN1A-2
  • NORAD 69005
  • 2026-100AB
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Lynk Tower Gen1A-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Lynk Tower Gen1A-2 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 Lynk Tower Gen1A-2, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is Lynk Tower Gen1A-2?

At 4:53:55 PM UTC Lynk Tower Gen1A-2 was over the Southern Ocean (66.1° S, 69.5° E), 525 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Lynk Tower Gen1A-2?

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

Can I see Lynk Tower Gen1A-2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Lynk Tower Gen1A-2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Lynk Global, Inc
State
United States of America
Built by
Lynk Global, Inc
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
85 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
4:53 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:53 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
66.1° S, 69.5° E
Altitude
525 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,360 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 5:48 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.21
This orbit
497 to 502 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,620 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:45 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:45 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Lynk Tower Gen1A-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Lynk Tower Gen1A-2 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

Lynk Tower Gen1A-2 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
YAM-12Earth-watching satellite
GEN1A-1Communications 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
Lynk Tower Gen1A-2497 to 502 km95 minutes85 kg2026
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:45 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "GEN1A-2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-100AB",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:45:51.452352",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.21095362,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0003644,
  "INCLINATION": 97.3874,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 207.3016,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 217.6296,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 142.4685,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 69005,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 2870,
  "BSTAR": 0.00023298583,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00005113,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}