- CUTE-1.7+APD 2
- NORAD 32785
- 2008-021C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Antarctica
Orbit ends over Antarctica
In view from you
Nobody watches Cubesat-OSCAR-65 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 Cubesat-OSCAR-65, 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 Greenland LIVE
Where is Cubesat-OSCAR-65?
At 5:19:08 PM UTC Cubesat-OSCAR-65 was over Greenland (77.7° N, 49.4° W), 552 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Cubesat-OSCAR-65?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 28, 2008.
Can I see Cubesat-OSCAR-65?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Cubesat-OSCAR-65, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Tokyo Inst of Technology
- State
- Japan (Nippon), State of
- Built by
- Tokyo Inst of Technology
- Launched
- Mass
- 4 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- 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
- 5:19 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:19 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 77.7° N, 49.4° W
- Altitude
- 552 km
- Speed
- 7.59 km/s (27,324 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 95.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.11
- This orbit
- 527 to 536 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,670 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:14 AM, 13 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:14 AM, 13 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Cubesat-OSCAR-65, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Cubesat-OSCAR-65 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
Cubesat-OSCAR-65 shares its launch, 2008-021, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| CARTOSAT 2A | Earth-watching satellite |
| CANX-6 | Communications satellite |
| IMS-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| CANX-2 | Satellite |
| SEEDS | Satellite |
| RUBIN 8/PSLV | 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 8, 2026, 4:14 AM, 13 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CUTE-1.7+APD 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2008-021C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:14:44.781216",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.10603353,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00069043,
"INCLINATION": 97.8432,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 296.8496,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 256.5122,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 103.5337,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 32785,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 693,
"BSTAR": 0.00048670918,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000798,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}