PAZ

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Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/paz

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • NORAD 43215
  • 2018-020A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where PAZ is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Canada

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches PAZ 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.

Even at its closest, PAZ is too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth, so no city page carries pass times for it.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Altitude

504 km505 km506 km507 km
PAZ, 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 Falcon 9 from Vandenberg. Source

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is PAZ?

At 8:06:04 PM UTC PAZ was over the Atlantic Ocean (0.2° S, 31.3° W), 511 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is PAZ?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 22, 2018.

Can I see PAZ?

No, not with the naked eye: even at its closest, PAZ is too faint to see from anywhere on Earth; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Launched
Watches
The Earth’s surface by X-band radar, day and night and in any weather, in detail down to 25 cm, for defence and civilian uses; and the atmosphere, by GPS radio occultation
Full picture of the Earth
Any spot on Earth every 24 hours on average
Operator
Hisdesat, the Spanish company that owns and flies it, with Spain’s Ministry of Defence as its main customer
Mass
about 1.4 t
Typical altitude
507 to 510 km
Speed
about 7.61 km/s (27,400 km/h)

Latest orbital data

Position received
8:06 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:06 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
0.2° S, 31.3° W
Altitude
511 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,389 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.19
This orbit
504 to 507 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,590 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 18, 2026, 7:27 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 18, 2026, 7:27 AM, 12 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
Close approaches to PAZ are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
Losing to drag
PAZ is falling about 4 m a day, read from 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, 7:27 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "PAZ",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-020A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-18T07:27:20.412288",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.19144435,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001698,
  "INCLINATION": 97.447,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 267.3796,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 87.6049,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 272.538,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43215,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 47514,
  "BSTAR": 0.00012022,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002458,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}