SaudiSat-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/28371

  • SAUDISAT 2
  • NORAD 28371
  • 2004-025F
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

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

Orbit ends over the Tasman Sea

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches SaudiSat-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 SaudiSat-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 the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is SaudiSat-2?

At 6:21:30 PM UTC SaudiSat-2 was over the Atlantic Ocean (56.5° N, 19.8° W), 728 km up, moving at 7.49 km/s and in sunlight.

What is SaudiSat-2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 29, 2004.

Can I see SaudiSat-2?

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

General

Operator
King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology
State
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of
Built by
King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology
Launched
Mass
35 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
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
56.5° N, 19.8° W
Altitude
728 km
Speed
7.49 km/s (26,957 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.6°
Orbital period
98.9 minutes
Orbits per day
14.57
This orbit
684 to 718 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,990 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:33 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:33 AM, 11 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to SaudiSat-2 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

SaudiSat-2 shares its launch, 2004-025, with 10 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
APRIZESAT 2Communications satellite
SL-24 R/BRocket body
DEMETERSatellite
SAUDICOMSAT 1Communications satellite
SAUDICOMSAT 2Communications satellite
APRIZESAT 1Communications satellite
UNISAT 3Satellite
SL-24 DEBDebris
AMSAT ECHOCommunications satellite
SL-24 DEBDebris

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, 6:33 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SAUDISAT 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2004-025F",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:33:20.408832",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.56750517,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00240356,
  "INCLINATION": 98.5564,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 316.0365,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 211.9227,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 148.0515,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 28371,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18672,
  "BSTAR": 0.000080137892,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000031,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}