- Pioneer
- NORAD 7531
- 1974-089C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches INTASAT 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 INTASAT, 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. It is still up there all the same, going round as it has since it was launched.
Altitude
One reading a day, worked out from the elements Space-Track publishes.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched on Delta from Vandenberg. Source
- End of mission
Its mission ended.
Summary
Over Iran LIVE
Where is INTASAT?
At 3:01:30 AM UTC INTASAT was over Iran (28.9° N, 59.9° E), 1,452 km up, moving at 7.14 km/s and in sunlight.
What is INTASAT?
One of the pioneers of spaceflight in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 15, 1974; its mission ended in 1976.
Can I see INTASAT?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for INTASAT, and nothing here estimates one; what it is now is a relic of the first years in orbit.
General
- Launched
- Ended
- Rocket
- Delta
- Remembered for
- Being Spain’s first satellite, designed and built entirely in Spain, with a beacon that studied the ionosphere
- Operator
- INTA, Spain’s National Institute for Aerospace Technology, which built it and ran it; NASA launched it
- Size
- a drum 0.44 m across
- Mass
- 24.5 kg
- Typical altitude
- 1,441 to 1,459 km
- Speed
- about 7.14 km/s (25,700 km/h)
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 3:01 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 3:01 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 28.9° N, 59.9° E
- Altitude
- 1,452 km
- Speed
- 7.14 km/s (25,700 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 102°
- Orbital period
- 114.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 12.54
- This orbit
- 1,439 to 1,456 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,970 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 2, 2026, 11:44 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 2, 2026, 11:44 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for INTASAT, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to INTASAT has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
- Losing to drag
- INTASAT is falling less than a metre a day, read from the last 48 days of samples.
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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 2, 2026, 11:44 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "INTASAT",
"OBJECT_ID": "1974-089C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-02T11:44:52.584000",
"MEAN_MOTION": 12.53533315,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0011126,
"INCLINATION": 101.9925,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 320.293,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 238.0596,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 281.1197,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 7531,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 37760,
"BSTAR": 0.000055006,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -3.8e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}