Aerocube 2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/31133

  • Military
  • AEROCUBE 2
  • NORAD 31133
  • 2007-012R
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Aerocube 2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Tasman Sea

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Aerocube 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 Aerocube 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 Chukchi Sea LIVE

Where is Aerocube 2?

At 6:21:15 PM UTC Aerocube 2 was over the Chukchi Sea (70.9° N, 176° W), 709 km up, moving at 7.49 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Aerocube 2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 17, 2007.

Can I see Aerocube 2?

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

General

Operator
Aerospace Corp.
State
United States of America
Built by
Aerospace Corp.
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
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, that a defence organisation flies it, 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
70.9° N, 176° W
Altitude
709 km
Speed
7.49 km/s (26,975 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.5°
Orbital period
98.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.67
This orbit
619 to 717 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,960 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 5:18 PM, 23 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 5:18 PM, 1 day old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Aerocube 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

Aerocube 2 shares its launch, 2007-012, with 15 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
EGYPTSAT 1Earth-watching satellite
SAUDISAT 3Earth-watching satellite
SAUDICOMSAT 7Communications satellite
SL-24 DEBDebris
SAUDICOMSAT 6Communications satellite
CSTB 1Satellite
SL-24 R/BRocket body
SAUDICOMSAT 5Communications satellite
SAUDICOMSAT 3Communications satellite
MASTSatellite
SAUDICOMSAT 4Communications satellite
LIBERTAD 1Satellite
CP3Satellite
CAPE 1Satellite
CP4Satellite

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, 5:18 PM, 23 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "AEROCUBE 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2007-012R",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T17:18:20.062656",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.66944225,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00698371,
  "INCLINATION": 98.4512,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 300.9797,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 233.2798,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 126.1978,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 31133,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 4139,
  "BSTAR": 0.0001869125,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001028,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}