- Earth-watching satellite
- Sentinel-5P
- NORAD 42969
- 2017-064A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Barents Sea
Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Sentinel-5P 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-5P, 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
One reading a day, worked out from the elements Space-Track publishes.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched on Rockot from Plesetsk. Source
- Manoeuvre
Between Wednesday, Oct 7 at 8:06 PM UTC and Friday, Oct 9 at 2:24 PM UTC, Sentinel-5P raised its orbit by about 140 m.
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Sentinel-5P?
At 4:11:14 AM UTC Sentinel-5P was over the Atlantic Ocean (49° S, 47.1° W), 846 km up, moving at 7.43 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Sentinel-5P?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 13, 2017.
Can I see Sentinel-5P?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Sentinel-5P, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Launched
- Rocket
- Rockot
- Watches
- The air: ozone, nitrogen dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, formaldehyde and aerosols
- Full picture of the Earth
- Every day
- Operator
- ESA, which flies it from Darmstadt, with the Netherlands, which co-funded its Tropomi instrument
- Mass
- 820 kg
- Typical altitude
- 826 to 828 km
- Speed
- about 7.44 km/s (26,800 km/h)
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:11 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:11 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 49° S, 47.1° W
- Altitude
- 846 km
- Speed
- 7.43 km/s (26,741 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:19 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.8°
- Orbital period
- 101.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.19
- This orbit
- 824 to 825 km
- In shadow
- 32 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,180 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 2, 2026, 10:11 AM, 16 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 2, 2026, 10:11 AM, 17 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Sentinel-5P, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Sentinel-5P has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
- Last manoeuvre
- Between Wednesday, Oct 7 at 8:06 PM UTC and Friday, Oct 9 at 2:24 PM UTC, Sentinel-5P raised its orbit by about 140 m.
- Losing to drag
- Sentinel-5P has not fallen measurably over 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, 10:11 AM, 16 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SENTINEL 5P",
"OBJECT_ID": "2017-064A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-02T10:11:33.110592",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.19498257,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0000794,
"INCLINATION": 98.8074,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 247.6433,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 95.9792,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 264.1475,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 42969,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 46917,
"BSTAR": 0.000031586,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 2.2e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}