Kuiper-00540

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/69609

  • Communications satellite
  • KUIPER-00540
  • NORAD 69609
  • 2026-140T
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kuiper-00540 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Sea of Okhotsk

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Kuiper-00540 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 Kuiper-00540, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Kuiper-00540?

At 6:41:25 PM UTC Kuiper-00540 was over the Indian Ocean (29.2° S, 67.2° E), 521 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Kuiper-00540?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 17, 2026.

Can I see Kuiper-00540?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kuiper-00540, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Kuiper Systems LLC
State
United States of America
Built by
Kuiper Systems LLC
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
490 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
6:41 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:41 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
29.2° S, 67.2° E
Altitude
521 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,367 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:09 PM UTC
Inclination
51.9°
Orbital period
94.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.19
This orbit
505 to 513 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,610 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 22 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 22 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kuiper-00540, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kuiper-00540 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

Kuiper-00540 shares its launch, 2026-140, with 35 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
KUIPER-00423Communications satellite
KUIPER-00428Communications satellite
KUIPER-00481Communications satellite
KUIPER-00490Communications satellite
KUIPER-00493Communications satellite
KUIPER-00496Communications satellite
KUIPER-00513Communications satellite
KUIPER-00516Communications satellite
KUIPER-00517Communications satellite
KUIPER-00520Communications satellite
KUIPER-00522Communications satellite
KUIPER-00528Communications satellite
KUIPER-00532Communications satellite
KUIPER-00533Communications satellite
KUIPER-00534Communications satellite
KUIPER-00537Communications satellite
KUIPER-00538Communications satellite
KUIPER-00541Communications satellite
KUIPER-00542Communications satellite
KUIPER-00543Communications satellite
KUIPER-00544Communications satellite
KUIPER-00546Communications satellite
KUIPER-00547Communications satellite
KUIPER-00549Communications satellite
KUIPER-00550Communications satellite
KUIPER-00551Communications satellite
KUIPER-00554Communications satellite
KUIPER-00555Communications satellite
KUIPER-00556Communications satellite
KUIPER-00557Communications satellite
KUIPER-00560Communications satellite
KUIPER-00561Communications satellite
KUIPER-00564Communications satellite
KUIPER-00567Communications satellite
KUIPER-00573Communications 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
Kuiper-00540505 to 513 km95 minutes490 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 7, 2026, 8:00 PM, 22 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "KUIPER-00540",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-140T",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:00:01.000224",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.19229106,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0005675,
  "INCLINATION": 51.8894,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 65.859,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 70.444,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 119.1306,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 69609,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 405,
  "BSTAR": -0.023399656,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00469218,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}