Communications
ORBCOMM FM19
Commercial M2M Messaging (First-Gen) · ORBCOMM
Right now
LiveIt moves every second. See exactly where it is — worked out from its orbit, on your own device — on the live 3D globe.
- Over
- —
- Altitude
- —
- Speed
- —
One of ORBCOMM's original 1998-99 satellite batch, relaying short-burst data from remote assets — shipping containers, railcars, heavy equipment — back to customers who need to know where their property is and how it's performing, without depending on cellular coverage that simply doesn't exist across most of the world's oceans, deserts, and forests.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 476–479 mi (765–771 km)
- Inclination
- 45.0°
- One orbit
- 100.1 minutes14.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 25415
- Int’l designator
- 1998-046C
- Launched
- 1998
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
More communications
- ORBCOMM FM20Commercial M2M Messaging (First-Gen)
- ORBCOMM FM27Commercial M2M Messaging (First-Gen)
- ORBCOMM FM32Commercial M2M Messaging (First-Gen)
- OSCAR 7 (AO-7)Amateur Radio Satellite
- PCSAT (NO-44)Amateur Radio Satellite (APRS Position Tracking)
- PERSEUS-M1Commercial AIS Ship Tracking Satellite