Satellites Visible Tonight from Rourkela

Satellites visible from Rourkela (22.2604°N, 84.8536°E) tonight, with the IST start time, direction, peak height and brightness of each pass. A pass is listed only when the satellite clears 10°, is sunlit, your sky is dark and it reaches about magnitude 4.5.

Rourkela lies in hilly country in north-west Odisha, about 240 km from Bhubaneswar, around the Rourkela Steel Plant, India's first integrated public-sector steel works. The Brahmani river forms just outside the city where the Koel and Sankh meet.

When the sky works in Rourkela

The hills around Rourkela catch steady monsoon rain from mid-June. Once it ends in early October, the dry, cool season through February brings the clearest skies.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Sambalpur, Ranchi.

Which satellites are visible from Rourkela?

The ISS is the brightest at magnitude -3 to -4, followed by China's Tiangong station, large Earth-observation satellites, spent rocket bodies and Starlink trains in the days after a launch. GPS and NavIC satellites orbit too high to see with the naked eye.