- RUBIN 2
- NORAD 27605
- 2002-058A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches AATiS-OSCAR-49 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 AATiS-OSCAR-49, 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 Canada LIVE
Where is AATiS-OSCAR-49?
At 5:41:58 PM UTC AATiS-OSCAR-49 was over Canada (49.1° N, 120.7° W), 656 km up, moving at 7.52 km/s and in sunlight.
What is AATiS-OSCAR-49?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 20, 2002.
Can I see AATiS-OSCAR-49?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for AATiS-OSCAR-49, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- OHB (Orbital Hochtechnologie Bremen System GmbH)
- State
- Germany, Federal Republic of
- Built by
- OHB (Orbital Hochtechnologie Bremen System GmbH)
- Launched
- Mass
- 14 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 49.1° N, 120.7° W
- Altitude
- 656 km
- Speed
- 7.52 km/s (27,086 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:31 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 64.6°
- Orbital period
- 97.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.8
- This orbit
- 579 to 680 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,860 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 4:48 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 4:48 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for AATiS-OSCAR-49, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to AATiS-OSCAR-49 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
AATiS-OSCAR-49 shares its launch, 2002-058, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| LATINSAT B | Communications satellite |
| SAUDISAT 1C | Communications satellite |
| UNISAT 2 | Satellite |
| TRAILBLAZER 2 | Satellite |
| SL-24 R/B | Rocket body |
| LATINSAT A | 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, 4:48 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "RUBIN 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2002-058A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T16:48:19.464192",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.79592838,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00723207,
"INCLINATION": 64.5547,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 48.9626,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 235.9448,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 123.4777,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27605,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 28581,
"BSTAR": 0.00012622933,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000838,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}