- Military
- OPS 2112
- NORAD 8916
- 1976-059A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Peru
Orbit ends over Peru
In view from you
Nobody watches DSP F6 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 DSP F6, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Colombia LIVE
Where is DSP F6?
At 5:35:16 PM UTC DSP F6 was over Colombia (1.3° S, 71.5° W), 36,000 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.
What is DSP F6?
A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jun 26, 1976.
Can I see DSP F6?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for DSP F6, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- TRW Inc.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 1.3° S, 71.5° W
- Altitude
- 36,000 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,041 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 3°
- Orbital period
- 1,447.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 35,995 to 36,032 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:18 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:18 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for DSP F6, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to DSP F6 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.
Launched with
DSP F6 shares its launch, 1976-059, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B | Rocket body |
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 8, 2026, 7:18 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OPS 2112",
"OBJECT_ID": "1976-059A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:18:49.918752",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.99472322,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00043139,
"INCLINATION": 2.9792,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 266.3585,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 285.1595,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 255.4002,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 8916,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2693,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.0000017,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}