- Earth-watching satellite
- NORAD 40115
- 2014-048A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Ukraine
Orbit ends over France
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches WorldView-3 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 WorldView-3, 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 Atlas V from Vandenberg. Source
Summary
Over Greenland LIVE
Where is WorldView-3?
At 8:06:29 PM UTC WorldView-3 was over Greenland (80.9° N, 22.5° W), 625 km up, moving at 7.55 km/s and in sunlight.
What is WorldView-3?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 13, 2014.
Can I see WorldView-3?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for WorldView-3, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Launched
- Watches
- Whatever it is pointed at, in detail down to 31 cm, in visible light and in infrared that sees through haze and smoke
- Full picture of the Earth
- Any spot it is asked for within a day on average, and up to 680,000 km² a day
- Operator
- Vantor, called Maxar Intelligence until 2025, which flies it as a commercial imaging satellite
- Mass
- about 2.8 t
- Typical altitude
- 612 to 615 km
- Speed
- about 7.55 km/s (27,200 km/h)
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 8:06 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 8:06 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 80.9° N, 22.5° W
- Altitude
- 625 km
- Speed
- 7.55 km/s (27,194 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 9:02 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 97 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.85
- This orbit
- 609 to 612 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,810 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Sep 18, 2026, 6:47 AM, 13 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 18, 2026, 6:47 AM, 13 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for WorldView-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- Close approaches to WorldView-3 are not available right now. Try again in a few minutes.
- Losing to drag
- WorldView-3 is falling about 2 m a day, read from the last 2 days of samples.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 18, 2026, 6:47 AM, 13 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "WORLDVIEW 3",
"OBJECT_ID": "2014-048A",
"EPOCH": "2026-09-18T06:47:24.269856",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.85144142,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021386,
"INCLINATION": 97.8488,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 334.7989,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 51.0677,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 309.0729,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40115,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 65572,
"BSTAR": 0.000065856189,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000051,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}