Aurora 1

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  • AURORA 1
  • NORAD 2876
  • 1967-065B
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Aurora 1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Aurora 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 Aurora 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 Aurora 1?

At 6:19:42 PM UTC Aurora 1 was over the Pacific Ocean (33.8° N, 170.2° E), 3,947 km up, moving at 6.19 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Aurora 1?

A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jun 29, 1967.

Can I see Aurora 1?

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

General

Operator
Office of Naval Research
State
United States of America
Built by
Rice University
Launched
Mass
21 kg
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Medium 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
6:19 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:19 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
33.8° N, 170.2° E
Altitude
3,947 km
Speed
6.19 km/s (22,298 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
90°
Orbital period
172.1 minutes
Orbits per day
8.37
This orbit
3,799 to 3,941 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 4,730 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 9:35 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 9:35 AM, 1 day old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Aurora 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

Aurora 1 shares its launch, 1967-065, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SECOR 9 (EGRS 9)Earth-watching satellite
THOR BURNER 2 R/BRocket body

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, 9:35 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "AURORA 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1967-065B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T09:35:33.861408",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 8.36560177,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00697222,
  "INCLINATION": 89.9614,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 313.1377,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 330.3846,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 29.3053,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 2876,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 40158,
  "BSTAR": -0.00014020418,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1e-8,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}