Sentinel-1C

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  • Earth-watching satellite
  • NORAD 62261
  • 2024-235A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Sentinel-1C is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Sentinel-1C 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 Sentinel-1C, 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. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Altitude

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Sentinel-1C, 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 Vega-C from Kourou. Source

Summary

Over the Coral Sea LIVE

Where is Sentinel-1C?

At 8:07:03 PM UTC Sentinel-1C was over the Coral Sea (14.7° S, 146.2° E), 702 km up, moving at 7.5 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Sentinel-1C?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 5, 2024.

Can I see Sentinel-1C?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Sentinel-1C, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Launched
Watches
The Earth’s surface by radar, day and night and through cloud: sea ice, oil spills, floods and the slow movements of the ground
Full picture of the Earth
Every 12 days on its own, or every 6 together with Sentinel-1D
Operator
ESA, which flies it for the European Union’s Copernicus programme
Mass
about 2.2 t
Typical altitude
695 to 697 km
Speed
about 7.51 km/s (27,000 km/h)

Latest orbital data

Position received
8:07 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:07 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
14.7° S, 146.2° E
Altitude
702 km
Speed
7.5 km/s (27,014 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.2°
Orbital period
98.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.59
This orbit
692 to 694 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,950 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 18, 2026, 7:42 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 18, 2026, 7:42 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Sentinel-1C, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
Close approaches to Sentinel-1C are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
Losing to drag
Sentinel-1C is falling less than a metre a day, read from the last 2 days of samples.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 programme

Orbinauts also tracks:

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 18, 2026, 7:42 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SENTINEL 1C",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-235A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-18T07:42:31.401792",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.59199713,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00013622,
  "INCLINATION": 98.1823,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 267.3093,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 89.9594,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 270.1762,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 62261,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 9499,
  "BSTAR": 0.000027670554,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 8.5e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}