STEP M2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/23105

  • Military
  • STEP 2
  • NORAD 23105
  • 1994-029A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where STEP M2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the United States of America

Orbit ends over the United States of America

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches STEP M2 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 STEP M2, 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 India LIVE

Where is STEP M2?

At 5:39:29 PM UTC STEP M2 was over India (33° N, 78.7° E), 617 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is STEP M2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 19, 1994.

Can I see STEP M2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for STEP M2, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
USAF SMC/DoD Space Test Program
State
United States of America
Built by
TRW Inc. Chantilly
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
180 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

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

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
33° N, 78.7° E
Altitude
617 km
Speed
7.54 km/s (27,155 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:53 PM UTC
Inclination
81.9°
Orbital period
96.6 minutes
Orbits per day
14.91
This orbit
533 to 648 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,790 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:37 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:37 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for STEP M2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to STEP M2 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

STEP M2 shares its launch, 1994-029, with 56 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
PEGASUS R/BRocket body
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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, 4:37 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STEP 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1994-029A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:37:34.681728",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.91369079,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00821529,
  "INCLINATION": 81.9407,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 26.7695,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 145.1434,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 215.5204,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 23105,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 74134,
  "BSTAR": 0.00041079605,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004398,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}