Kita-36

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  • Communications satellite
  • KITA-36
  • NORAD 69909
  • 2026-156AS
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kita-36 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

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Kita-36 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 Kita-36, 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 Antarctica LIVE

Where is Kita-36?

At 4:54:06 PM UTC Kita-36 was over Antarctica (72.5° S, 65° W), 623 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Kita-36?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 7, 2026.

Can I see Kita-36?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kita-36, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Sony Space Communications Corp.
State
United States of America
Built by
Astro Digital
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
47 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
4:54 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:54 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
72.5° S, 65° W
Altitude
623 km
Speed
7.54 km/s (27,158 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:39 PM UTC
Inclination
97.7°
Orbital period
96.5 minutes
Orbits per day
14.92
This orbit
583 to 593 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,800 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:31 PM, 17 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:31 PM, 17 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kita-36, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kita-36 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

Kita-36 shares its launch, 2026-156, with 77 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CAS500-4Satellite
ICEYE-X79Earth-watching satellite
PELICAN-11Earth-watching satellite
TOM-1Earth-watching satellite
FIRESAT2Earth-watching satellite
CUBY-4Earth-watching satellite
CUBY-3Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-023Satellite
MAVERICSatellite
GRUS-3GEarth-watching satellite
ANDURIL-216Satellite
SCION-XSatellite
CUBY-2Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2-DELOITTE-6Communications satellite
HYPERION-GR1Communications satellite
YAM-17Earth-watching satellite
GRUS-3AEarth-watching satellite
FIRESAT1Earth-watching satellite
NAVIGATORSatellite
SPEAR-1BSatellite
ICEYE-X81Earth-watching satellite
FIRESAT3Earth-watching satellite
GRUS-3CEarth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X77Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X80Earth-watching satellite
GRUS-3FEarth-watching satellite
MIKROGLOB-1Satellite
BRO-31Satellite
SPEAR-1CSatellite
GRUS-3EEarth-watching satellite
FOSSASAT2E26Communications satellite
SPEAR-1ASatellite
R5-S9Satellite
CUBY-1Earth-watching satellite
BALKAN-3Earth-watching satellite
KITA-53Communications satellite
LEMUR-2-ALEX-FULTONCommunications satellite
TOM-3Earth-watching satellite
CUBY-5Earth-watching satellite
MISR-D-1Satellite
LEMUR-2-DELOITTE-5Communications satellite
SUCHAI-4Satellite
MARMOTSATSatellite
IPOS-TDSMCommunications satellite
TOM-2Earth-watching satellite
MISR-D-2Satellite
KOYOSatellite
CITY LABS BOHRSatellite
GRUS-3BEarth-watching satellite
GRUS-3DEarth-watching satellite
MARINASatellite
APEX NOVA 1Satellite
POSIDONIACommunications satellite
RAFSSatellite
CENTAURI-9Communications satellite
ET-001ANavigation satellite
LEMUR-2-JESS-RCommunications satellite
REPLICATOR-2Satellite
LEMUR-2-ALYXCommunications satellite
N2-P-BODYEarth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2-SOPHILUNA-X1Communications satellite
GRITSSSatellite
LEMUR-2-NURAYEarth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2-CRIMBOREALISCommunications satellite
LEMUR-2-DELOITTE-4Communications satellite
KOSTKACommunications satellite
OASIS ALPHASatellite
LEONAV-1Satellite
CYBERCUBESatellite
CLOUDCT-PRECURSOREarth-watching satellite
LEMUR-2-ELEONOREEarth-watching satellite
ET-001BNavigation satellite
ET-001CNavigation satellite
ET-001DNavigation satellite
FLORBELACommunications satellite
CESARIOCommunications satellite
TORGACommunications 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
Kita-36583 to 593 km96 minutes47 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, 11:31 PM, 17 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "KITA-36",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-156AS",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:31:48.828864",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.9212092,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00072229,
  "INCLINATION": 97.7417,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 210.2865,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 90.5044,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 269.7003,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 69909,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1843,
  "BSTAR": 0.00013342074,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001301,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}