ARSAT-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/arsat-1

  • Communications satellite
  • NORAD 40272
  • 2014-062B
  • Geostationary

Current orbit

Where ARSAT-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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One orbit takes a day, as long as the Earth takes to turn, so ARSAT-1 keeps above 71.8° W of the equator and never crosses the sky.

Past trackNext orbits

It never rises or sets

ARSAT-1 turns with the Earth, standing over one longitude of the equator. From anywhere it can be seen at all it is up day and night, in the same direction, so there is no pass to wait for.

No brightness has been published for ARSAT-1, 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 wait for: it never crosses the sky. From the half of the Earth it stands over it keeps the same point day and night, and from the other half it never rises at all.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched on Ariane 5 from Kourou. Source

Summary

Over Colombia LIVE

Where is ARSAT-1?

At 3:03:08 AM UTC ARSAT-1 was over Colombia (0° S, 71.8° W), 35,793 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.

What is ARSAT-1?

A communications satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since Oct 16, 2014.

Can I see ARSAT-1?

No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: ARSAT-1 stands over 71.8° W of the equator; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Launched
Rocket
Ariane 5
Orbital slot
Over the equator at 71.8° W, where the dishes point
Carries
Television direct to the home, internet for VSAT dishes, and data and telephony over IP, in the Ku band
Covers
South America: the whole of Argentina and its neighbouring countries
Operator
ARSAT, Argentina’s national telecommunications company, whose first geostationary satellite it is
Design life
15 years
Mass
about 3 t
Typical altitude
35,786 to 35,786 km
Speed
about 3.07 km/s (11,100 km/h)

Latest orbital data

Position received
3:03 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
3:03 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
0° S, 71.8° W
Altitude
35,793 km
Speed
3.07 km/s (11,066 km/h)
Course
Stands over 71.8° W
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
0.1°
Orbital period
1,436.1 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,780 to 35,796 km
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 2, 2026, 10:56 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 2, 2026, 10:56 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for ARSAT-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to ARSAT-1 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 2, 2026, 1:53 PM, 13 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 2, 2026, 10:56 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ARSAT 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-062B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-02T10:56:16.393056",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.00270913,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001823,
  "INCLINATION": 0.0556,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 73.2891,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 152.2632,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 268.4717,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40272,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 4401,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000267,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}