Helios

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/69021

  • HELIOS
  • NORAD 69021
  • 2026-100AT
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Helios 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 Arabian Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Helios 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 Helios, 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 Antarctica LIVE

Where is Helios?

At 4:55:59 PM UTC Helios was over Antarctica (71.8° S, 62.8° E), 527 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Helios?

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

Can I see Helios?

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

General

Operator
Emtech Space S.A.
State
Hellenic Republic
Built by
Emtech Space S.A.
Launched
Mass
8 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
71.8° S, 62.8° E
Altitude
527 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,356 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:48 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.22
This orbit
495 to 500 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,620 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:24 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:24 AM, 1 day old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Helios 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

Helios 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
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
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, 11:24 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HELIOS",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-100AT",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T11:24:57.440448",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.21654215,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00038462,
  "INCLINATION": 97.386,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 206.5643,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 180.9287,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 179.1943,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 69021,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 2858,
  "BSTAR": 0.00042175902,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000947,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}