- HORYU 2
- NORAD 38340
- 2012-025D
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Russia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Horyu-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 Horyu-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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Antarctica LIVE
Where is Horyu-2?
At 5:36:38 PM UTC Horyu-2 was over Antarctica (79.2° S, 89.1° W), 627 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Horyu-2?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 17, 2012.
Can I see Horyu-2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Horyu-2, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Kyushu Instiute of Technology
- State
- Japan (Nippon), State of
- Built by
- Kyushu Instiute of Technology
- Launched
- Mass
- 7 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
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 79.2° S, 89.1° W
- Altitude
- 627 km
- Speed
- 7.54 km/s (27,148 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:55 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.2°
- Orbital period
- 96.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.92
- This orbit
- 583 to 596 km
- In shadow
- 31 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,810 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:23 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:23 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Horyu-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Horyu-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.
Launched with
Horyu-2 shares its launch, 2012-025, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GCOM W1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| KOMPSAT 3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SDS-4 | Satellite |
| H-2A R/B | Rocket body |
| H-2A DEB | Debris |
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, 8:23 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "HORYU 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2012-025D",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:23:14.694432",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.91798962,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00091102,
"INCLINATION": 98.2371,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 91.4429,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 73.5219,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 286.6999,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 38340,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 77021,
"BSTAR": 0.00055435172,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00005535,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}