REX II

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/23814

  • REX 2
  • NORAD 23814
  • 1996-014A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where REX II is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Iran

Orbit ends over the Mediterranean Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches REX II 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 REX II, 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

  2. Close approach

    On Monday, Oct 12 at 12:20 AM UTC, a fragment of CZ-6A (NORAD 54444) was to pass within 825 m of REX 2 (NORAD 23814). The chance was about 1 in 3,000.

Summary

Over Sudan LIVE

Where is REX II?

At 5:39:33 PM UTC REX II was over Sudan (14° N, 28.6° E), 794 km up, moving at 7.47 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is REX II?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 9, 1996.

Can I see REX II?

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

General

Operator
USAF SMC/DoD Space Test Program
State
United States of America
Built by
CTA Space Systems Inc
Launched
Mass
110 kg
Operating
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
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
14° N, 28.6° E
Altitude
794 km
Speed
7.47 km/s (26,878 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:53 PM UTC
Inclination
90°
Orbital period
101 minutes
Orbits per day
14.25
This orbit
787 to 821 km
In shadow
17 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,100 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:25 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:25 AM, 15 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
1 reported. No close approach to REX II is reported for the next three 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

REX II shares its launch, 1996-014, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
PEGASUS R/BRocket body

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, 2:25 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "REX 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1996-014A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:25:51.561408",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.25389757,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00231858,
  "INCLINATION": 90.0061,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 341.4028,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 35.0017,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 325.2694,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 23814,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 59369,
  "BSTAR": 0.000050655682,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000131,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}