Sentinel-6B

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/sentinel-6b

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • NORAD 66514
  • 2025-264A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Sentinel-6B is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Sentinel-6B 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-6B, 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

1,330 km1,335 km1,340 km1,345 km
Sentinel-6B, 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 Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is Sentinel-6B?

At 8:07:20 PM UTC Sentinel-6B was over the Southern Ocean (62.8° S, 58.4° W), 1,355 km up, moving at 7.18 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Sentinel-6B?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 17, 2025.

Can I see Sentinel-6B?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Sentinel-6B, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

The Sentinel-6B spacecraft standing in the processing facility at Vandenberg during tests of its solar arrays in October 2025.
Photograph: NASA / USSF 30th Space Wing / Anthony Mendez (public domain)
Launched
Watches
The height of the sea, its waves and the wind over it, and the temperature, pressure and humidity of the atmosphere
Full picture of the Earth
Up to 95% of the ice-free ocean every 10 days
Operator
EUMETSAT, for the European Union’s Copernicus programme, with ESA, NASA, NOAA and France’s space agency CNES
Mass
about 1.2 t
Typical altitude
1,332 to 1,344 km
Speed
about 7.19 km/s (25,900 km/h)

Latest orbital data

Position received
8:07 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:07 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
62.8° S, 58.4° W
Altitude
1,355 km
Speed
7.18 km/s (25,859 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 8:31 PM UTC
Inclination
66°
Orbital period
112.4 minutes
Orbits per day
12.81
This orbit
1,330 to 1,342 km
In shadow
18 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,860 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 17, 2026, 12:39 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 17, 2026, 12:39 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Sentinel-6B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
Close approaches to Sentinel-6B are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
Losing to drag
Sentinel-6B 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-6 programme

Orbinauts also tracks:

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 17, 2026, 12:39 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SENTINEL-6B",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-264A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-17T12:39:56.996064",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 12.80929259,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0007882,
  "INCLINATION": 66.0414,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 303.387,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 267.8745,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 92.1367,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 66514,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 3899,
  "BSTAR": 0.000058079254,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.8e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}