Can X-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/27847

  • CANX-1
  • NORAD 27847
  • 2003-031H
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Can X-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Canada

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Can X-1 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 Can X-1, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Can X-1?

At 4:55:43 PM UTC Can X-1 was over the Pacific Ocean (39.7° S, 169.6° W), 831 km up, moving at 7.44 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Can X-1?

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

Can I see Can X-1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Can X-1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
State
Canada
Built by
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
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
39.7° S, 169.6° W
Altitude
831 km
Speed
7.44 km/s (26,766 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.7°
Orbital period
101.1 minutes
Orbits per day
14.24
This orbit
802 to 817 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,160 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 11:02 PM, 17 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:02 PM, 17 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Can X-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Can X-1 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Can X-1 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
AAU CUBESATSatellite
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 7, 2026, 11:02 PM, 17 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "CANX-1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2003-031H",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:02:07.171008",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.23912428,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0010246,
  "INCLINATION": 98.688,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 318.7386,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 105.7583,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 254.4727,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 27847,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 21219,
  "BSTAR": 0.00012349,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000239,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}