AAU-Cubesat

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/27846

  • AAU CUBESAT
  • NORAD 27846
  • 2003-031G
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where AAU-Cubesat is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Beaufort Sea

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches AAU-Cubesat 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 AAU-Cubesat, 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 1:07 PM UTC, a fragment of SL-16 (NORAD 39303) was to pass within 483 m of AAU Cubesat (NORAD 27846). The chance was about 1 in 6,000.

Summary

Over the Gulf of Alaska LIVE

Where is AAU-Cubesat?

At 4:55:44 PM UTC AAU-Cubesat was over the Gulf of Alaska (60.6° N, 146.7° W), 815 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.

What is AAU-Cubesat?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 30, 2003.

Can I see AAU-Cubesat?

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

General

Operator
Aalborg University
State
Denmark, Kingdom of
Built by
Aalborg University
Launched
Mass
1 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
4:55 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:55 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
60.6° N, 146.7° W
Altitude
815 km
Speed
7.46 km/s (26,838 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.7°
Orbital period
101.1 minutes
Orbits per day
14.24
This orbit
802 to 816 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,130 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:15 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:15 AM, 10 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
1 reported. No close approach to AAU-Cubesat 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

AAU-Cubesat shares its launch, 2003-031, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
MONITOR-E/SL-19Satellite
DTUSATSatellite
MOSTSpace telescope
CUTE-1Satellite
QUAKESATSatellite
CANX-1Satellite
CUBESAT XI 4Satellite

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, 6:15 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "AAU CUBESAT",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2003-031G",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:15:29.739168",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.24019947,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00102697,
  "INCLINATION": 98.6864,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 319.0529,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 103.1743,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 257.0583,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 27846,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 21219,
  "BSTAR": 0.00013320607,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000262,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}