- NORAD 31130
- 2007-012P
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over Brazil
In view from you
Nobody watches CAPE 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 CAPE 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is CAPE 1?
At 6:25:00 PM UTC CAPE 1 was over the Atlantic Ocean (50.3° N, 43.2° W), 664 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.
What is CAPE 1?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 17, 2007.
Can I see CAPE 1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for CAPE 1, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- University of Louisiana-Lafayette
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- University of Louisiana-Lafayette
- Launched
- Mass
- 1 kg
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- 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
- 6:25 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:25 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 50.3° N, 43.2° W
- Altitude
- 664 km
- Speed
- 7.54 km/s (27,148 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.5°
- Orbital period
- 98.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.65
- This orbit
- 615 to 732 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,880 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 3:57 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 3:57 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for CAPE 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to CAPE 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.
Launched with
CAPE 1 shares its launch, 2007-012, with 15 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| EGYPTSAT 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SAUDISAT 3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SAUDICOMSAT 7 | Communications satellite |
| SL-24 DEB | Debris |
| SAUDICOMSAT 6 | Communications satellite |
| CSTB 1 | Satellite |
| SL-24 R/B | Rocket body |
| SAUDICOMSAT 5 | Communications satellite |
| SAUDICOMSAT 3 | Communications satellite |
| MAST | Satellite |
| SAUDICOMSAT 4 | Communications satellite |
| LIBERTAD 1 | Satellite |
| CP3 | Satellite |
| CP4 | Satellite |
| AEROCUBE 2 | 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, 3:57 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CAPE 1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2007-012P",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T15:57:50.741568",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.65170502,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00828139,
"INCLINATION": 98.4649,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 290.1732,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 344.1877,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 15.6741,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 31130,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 3936,
"BSTAR": 0.00031491716,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001725,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}