- CCE 1 (AMPTE)
- NORAD 15199
- 1984-088A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Charge Composition Explorer 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 Charge Composition Explorer, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Charge Composition Explorer?
At 5:40:06 PM UTC Charge Composition Explorer was over the Pacific Ocean (0.4° S, 99.8° W), 49,309 km up, moving at 1.33 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Charge Composition Explorer?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Aug 16, 1984.
Can I see Charge Composition Explorer?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Charge Composition Explorer, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- JHU-Applied Physics Lab
- Launched
- Mass
- 198 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical 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
- 5:40 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:40 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 0.4° S, 99.8° W
- Altitude
- 49,309 km
- Speed
- 1.33 km/s (4,788 km/h)
- Course
- west
- Light
- In sunlight until 12:31 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 3.1°
- Orbital period
- 939.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.53
- This orbit
- 1,094 to 49,699 km
- In shadow
- 23 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 8,180 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 6:47 PM, 22 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 6:47 PM, 22 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Charge Composition Explorer, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Charge Composition Explorer 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.
Launched with
Charge Composition Explorer shares its launch, 1984-088, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| DELTA 1 R/B(1) | Rocket body |
| DELTA 1 DEB | Debris |
| DELTA 1 R/B(2) | Rocket body |
| DELTA 1 DEB | Debris |
| DELTA 1 DEB | Debris |
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 7, 2026, 6:47 PM, 22 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CCE 1 (AMPTE)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1984-088A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T18:47:08.149344",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.5331536,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.76483879,
"INCLINATION": 3.1451,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 221.3416,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 167.6476,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 32.8573,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 15199,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 20263,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000236,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}