- TRAILBLAZER 2
- NORAD 27609
- 2002-058E
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Great Australian Bight
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Trailblazer Dummy 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 Trailblazer Dummy, 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 Norwegian Sea LIVE
Where is Trailblazer Dummy?
At 6:20:44 PM UTC Trailblazer Dummy was over the Norwegian Sea (64.3° N, 6.7° E), 655 km up, moving at 7.53 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Trailblazer Dummy?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 20, 2002.
Can I see Trailblazer Dummy?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Trailblazer Dummy, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- TransOrbital, Inc
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Southern State Design Bureau
- Launched
- Mass
- 450 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 64.3° N, 6.7° E
- Altitude
- 655 km
- Speed
- 7.53 km/s (27,094 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:21 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 64.6°
- Orbital period
- 97.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.81
- This orbit
- 597 to 650 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, 4:41 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 4:41 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Trailblazer Dummy, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Trailblazer Dummy 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
Trailblazer Dummy shares its launch, 2002-058, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| RUBIN 2 | Satellite |
| LATINSAT B | Communications satellite |
| SAUDISAT 1C | Communications satellite |
| UNISAT 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, 4:41 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TRAILBLAZER 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2002-058E",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T04:41:47.557248",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.81434024,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00379398,
"INCLINATION": 64.555,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 255.5632,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 223.9274,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 135.8814,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27609,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 28887,
"BSTAR": 0.000059265618,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000322,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}