Hispasat 30W-6

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/hispasat-30w-6

  • Communications satellite
  • NORAD 43228
  • 2018-023A
  • Geostationary

Current orbit

Where Hispasat 30W-6 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 Hispasat 30W-6 keeps above 30° W of the equator and never crosses the sky.

Past trackNext orbits

It never rises or sets

Hispasat 30W-6 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 Hispasat 30W-6, 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 Falcon 9 Full Thrust from Cape Canaveral. Source

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Hispasat 30W-6?

At 8:07:31 PM UTC Hispasat 30W-6 was over the Atlantic Ocean (0° S, 30° W), 35,795 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.

What is Hispasat 30W-6?

A communications satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since Mar 6, 2018.

Can I see Hispasat 30W-6?

No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: Hispasat 30W-6 stands over 30° W of the equator; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Launched
Orbital slot
Over the equator at 30° W, where the dishes point
Carries
Television, broadband, corporate networks, and connectivity aboard high-speed trains and ships
Covers
Europe, North Africa and the Americas: beams over the Mediterranean, Spain and the whole American continent
Operator
Hispasat, the Spanish satellite communications operator
Design life
At least 15 years
Mass
about 6.1 t
Typical altitude
35,786 to 35,786 km
Speed
about 3.07 km/s (11,100 km/h)

Latest orbital data

Position received
8:07 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:07 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
0° S, 30° W
Altitude
35,795 km
Speed
3.07 km/s (11,066 km/h)
Course
Stands over 30° W
Light
In sunlight until 1:19 AM UTC
Inclination
0°
Orbital period
1,436.1 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,773 to 35,801 km
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 18, 2026, 6:36 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 18, 2026, 6:36 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Hispasat 30W-6, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

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Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 18, 2026, 6:36 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HISPASAT 30W-6",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-023A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-18T06:36:52.082784",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.0027323,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00032923,
  "INCLINATION": 0.0454,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 32.1444,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 108.0663,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 286.2128,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43228,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 3133,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.0000022,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}