- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- SAR LUPE 2
- NORAD 31797
- 2007-030A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Australia
Orbit ends over Australia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches SAR-Lupe 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 SAR-Lupe 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 for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Greenland LIVE
Where is SAR-Lupe 2?
At 5:36:28 PM UTC SAR-Lupe 2 was over Greenland (74.2° N, 24.5° W), 381 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in sunlight.
What is SAR-Lupe 2?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 2, 2007.
Can I see SAR-Lupe 2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for SAR-Lupe 2, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement
- State
- Germany, Federal Republic of
- Built by
- OHB (Orbital Hochtechnologie Bremen System GmbH)
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 770 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, what it is for, 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
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 74.2° N, 24.5° W
- Altitude
- 381 km
- Speed
- 7.69 km/s (27,677 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:30 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- Orbital period
- 91.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.67
- This orbit
- 364 to 365 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,300 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:58 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:58 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for SAR-Lupe 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to SAR-Lupe 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAR-Lupe 2 | 364 to 365 km | 92 minutes | 770 kg | 2007 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:58 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SAR LUPE 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2007-030A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:58:15.212928",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.66848761,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00007013,
"INCLINATION": 98.1132,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 76.9967,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 331.3142,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 28.8078,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 31797,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 7940,
"BSTAR": 0.00087150762,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00092738,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}