- PICOSAT 4
- NORAD 26092
- 2000-004K
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Greenland Sea
Orbit ends over Greenland
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Louise 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 Louise, 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 Greenland Sea LIVE
Where is Louise?
At 6:21:27 PM UTC Louise was over the Greenland Sea (78.5° N, 15.3° W), 719 km up, moving at 7.52 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Louise?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 27, 2000.
Can I see Louise?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Louise, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Santa Clara University
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Santa Clara University
- Launched
- Mass
- 0.5 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
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 78.5° N, 15.3° W
- Altitude
- 719 km
- Speed
- 7.52 km/s (27,054 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:25 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 100.2°
- Orbital period
- 99.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.49
- This orbit
- 704 to 749 km
- In shadow
- 31 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,980 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 8:49 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:49 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Louise, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Louise 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
Louise shares its launch, 2000-004, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| JAWSAT | Satellite |
| OPAL | Satellite |
| FALCONSAT | Satellite |
| ASUSAT | Communications satellite |
| MINOTAUR R/B | Rocket body |
| MINOTAUR DEB | Debris |
| PICOSAT 1&2 (TETHERED) | Satellite |
| PICOSAT 3 | Satellite |
| PICOSAT 5 | Communications satellite |
| PICOSAT 6 | Communications 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 7, 2026, 8:49 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "PICOSAT 4",
"OBJECT_ID": "2000-004K",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T08:49:34.417344",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.4899329,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00318527,
"INCLINATION": 100.1933,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 7.5337,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 91.9486,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 268.5349,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 26092,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 40707,
"BSTAR": 0.00020056047,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000703,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}