INTASAT

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Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/intasat

  • Pioneer
  • NORAD 7531
  • 1974-089C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where INTASAT is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

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

1,435 km1,440 km1,445 km1,450 km1,455 km1,460 km
INTASAT, one reading a day from Sep 16, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026. The band runs from the lowest point of the orbit to the highest; the line is the middle of it.

One reading a day, worked out from the elements Space-Track publishes.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched on Delta from Vandenberg. Source

  2. End of mission

    Its mission ended.

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is INTASAT?

At 8:06:30 PM UTC INTASAT was over the Atlantic Ocean (15.7° S, 20.8° W), 1,447 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
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
8:06 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:06 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
15.7° S, 20.8° W
Altitude
1,447 km
Speed
7.14 km/s (25,708 km/h)
Course
north
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 2,960 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 18, 2026, 7:10 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 18, 2026, 7:10 AM, 12 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
Close approaches to INTASAT are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
Losing to drag
INTASAT has not fallen measurably over the last 2 days of samples.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 18, 2026, 7:10 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "INTASAT",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1974-089C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-18T07:10:11.085888",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 12.53532158,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00111637,
  "INCLINATION": 101.9957,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 274.6419,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 326.4788,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 105.7635,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 7531,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 37194,
  "BSTAR": -0.000006040494,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.7e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}