Eutelsat Hotbird 13F

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/hot-bird-13f

  • Communications satellite
  • Hotbird 13F
  • NORAD 54048
  • 2022-134A
  • Geostationary

Current orbit

Where Hotbird 13F 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 Hotbird 13F keeps above 13° E of the equator and never crosses the sky.

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It never rises or sets

Hotbird 13F 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 Hotbird 13F, 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 from Cape Canaveral. Source

Summary

Over Gabon LIVE

Where is Hotbird 13F?

At 3:04:24 AM UTC Hotbird 13F was over Gabon (0° S, 13° E), 35,788 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.

What is Hotbird 13F?

A communications satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since Oct 15, 2022.

Can I see Hotbird 13F?

No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: Hotbird 13F stands over 13° E of the equator; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Launched
Rocket
Falcon 9
Orbital slot
Over the equator at 13° E, where the dishes point
Carries
Television straight to homes and to cable, IP and terrestrial networks: with its twin Hotbird 13G, around nine hundred channels
Covers
Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, where the two Hotbirds reach more than 160 million homes
Operator
Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, founded in 1977
Design life
At least 15 years
Mass
about 4.5 t
Typical altitude
35,786 to 35,786 km
Speed
about 3.07 km/s (11,100 km/h)

Latest orbital data

Position received
3:04 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
3:04 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
0° S, 13° E
Altitude
35,788 km
Speed
3.08 km/s (11,070 km/h)
Course
Stands over 13° E
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
0.1°
Orbital period
1,436.1 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,779 to 35,797 km
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 1, 2026, 7:56 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 1, 2026, 7:56 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Hotbird 13F, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Hotbird 13F 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 1, 2026, 7:56 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HOTBIRD 13F",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-134A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-01T19:56:46.891392",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.00271889,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021101,
  "INCLINATION": 0.0567,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 285.3209,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 70.4902,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 357.5191,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 54048,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1475,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 8e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}