Alouette 2

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  • ALOUETTE 2
  • NORAD 1804
  • 1965-098A
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Alouette 2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Alouette 2 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 Alouette 2, 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 Alouette 2?

At 5:35:50 PM UTC Alouette 2 was over the Pacific Ocean (35.1° N, 151° W), 1,534 km up, moving at 7.11 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Alouette 2?

A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Nov 29, 1965.

Can I see Alouette 2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Alouette 2, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Defense Research Telecommunications Establishment, Canada
State
Canada
Built by
De Havilland, Toronto (Special Products/Appl. Research Div)
Launched
Mass
145 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Medium 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
35.1° N, 151° W
Altitude
1,534 km
Speed
7.11 km/s (25,610 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
79.8°
Orbital period
117.2 minutes
Orbits per day
12.28
This orbit
498 to 2,608 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 3,050 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:38 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:38 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Alouette 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Alouette 2 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

Alouette 2 shares its launch, 1965-098, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
EXPLORER 31 (ISIS-X)Satellite
THOR AGENA B R/BRocket body
THOR AGENA B DEBDebris
THOR AGENA B DEBDebris
THOR AGENA B DEBDebris
THOR AGENA B DEBDebris

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, 7:38 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ALOUETTE 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1965-098A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:38:47.700096",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 12.28481304,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.13300578,
  "INCLINATION": 79.7977,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 154.0321,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 300.3199,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 47.2814,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 1804,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 69697,
  "BSTAR": 0.00015580149,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000471,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}