IKA-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/26366

  • SIMSAT 2
  • NORAD 26366
  • 2000-026B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where IKA-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches IKA-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 IKA-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 Tanzania LIVE

Where is IKA-2?

At 10:24:57 AM UTC IKA-2 was over Tanzania (7.8° S, 31.6° E), 482 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is IKA-2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 16, 2000.

Can I see IKA-2?

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

General

Operator
Eurockot Launch Services GmbH (D for RU lanch vehicle)
State
Russian Federation
Built by
Khrunichev State Research and Production Center
Launched
Mass
660 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
10:24 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
10:24 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
7.8° S, 31.6° E
Altitude
482 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,443 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 10:56 AM UTC
Inclination
86.3°
Orbital period
94.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.3
This orbit
467 to 478 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 9:02 PM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 9:02 PM, 13 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to IKA-2 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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

IKA-2 shares its launch, 2000-026, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SIMSAT 1Satellite

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, 9:02 PM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SIMSAT 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2000-026B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T21:02:31.827264",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.30054362,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00085398,
  "INCLINATION": 86.3461,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 56.2494,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 81.0641,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 279.1574,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 26366,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 46533,
  "BSTAR": 0.00011382269,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003352,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}