Maxwell

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/101139

  • MAXWELL
  • NORAD 101139
  • 2026-237AE
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Maxwell is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Argentina

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Maxwell 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 Maxwell, 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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Maxwell?

At 4:56:17 PM UTC Maxwell was over the Pacific Ocean (53.1° S, 153.3° W), 606 km up, moving at 7.56 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Maxwell?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 20, 2026.

Can I see Maxwell?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Maxwell, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
ViaSat Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
Rocket Lab USA
Launched
Mass
184 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
4:56 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:56 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
53.1° S, 153.3° W
Altitude
606 km
Speed
7.56 km/s (27,209 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 5:44 PM UTC
Inclination
53°
Orbital period
96.5 minutes
Orbits per day
14.93
This orbit
586 to 595 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,770 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:41 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:41 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Maxwell, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Maxwell has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Maxwell shares its launch, 2026-237, with 30 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
PULSAR-001Communications satellite
PULSAR-002Communications satellite
PULSAR-003Earth-watching satellite
PULSAR-004Satellite
IMPULSE-4 MIRANavigation satellite
SIRIUS-ASatellite
FRG-100D4Navigation satellite
CAPELLA-21 (ACADIA)Satellite
HAWK-15ASatellite
HAWK-15BSatellite
HAWK-15CSatellite
ICEYE-X84Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X88Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X109Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X110Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT RNavigation satellite
GNOMES-11Navigation satellite
PELICAN-12 3013Earth-watching satellite
UMBRA-13Earth-watching satellite
UMBRA-14Earth-watching satellite
CAPELLA-22 (ACADIA)Navigation satellite
TOMORROW-S14Earth-watching satellite
TOMORROW-S15Earth-watching satellite
T-MICROSAT-3Navigation satellite
T-MICROSAT-4Earth-watching satellite
STARBURST-1Satellite
PTS-1Navigation satellite
W-SERIES 7Satellite
FOSSASAT2E27Communications satellite
SIRIUS-BCommunications satellite

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:41 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "MAXWELL",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-237AE",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:41:44.915136",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.92538295,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00060914,
  "INCLINATION": 52.9882,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 239.8793,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 319.8544,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 40.1987,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 101139,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 282,
  "BSTAR": 0.00031851349,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003059,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}