TshepisoSat

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39417

  • ZACUBE
  • NORAD 39417
  • 2013-066B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where TshepisoSat is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Sea of Okhotsk

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches TshepisoSat 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 TshepisoSat, 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 Solomon Sea LIVE

Where is TshepisoSat?

At 4:55:33 PM UTC TshepisoSat was over the Solomon Sea (5.1° S, 153.5° E), 549 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is TshepisoSat?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 21, 2013.

Can I see TshepisoSat?

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

General

Operator
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Belleville Campus
State
South Africa, Republic of
Built by
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Belleville Campus
Launched
Mass
1.2 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
4:55 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:55 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
5.1° S, 153.5° E
Altitude
549 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,342 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:02 PM UTC
Inclination
97.8°
Orbital period
95.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.02
This orbit
530 to 585 km
In shadow
27 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,660 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:06 AM, 8 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:06 AM, 8 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to TshepisoSat 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

TshepisoSat shares its launch, 2013-066, with 25 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
APRIZESAT 7Communications satellite
SKYSAT 1Earth-watching satellite
DUBAISAT 2Earth-watching satellite
OPTOSSatellite
UNISAT 5Satellite
STSAT 3Space telescope
WNISAT 1Earth-watching satellite
CINEMA 2Satellite
APRIZESAT 8Communications satellite
CINEMA 3Satellite
TRITON 1Communications satellite
DELFI-N3XTSatellite
DOVE 3Earth-watching satellite
GOMX 1Communications satellite
BRITE-PLSpace telescope
ICUBE 1Satellite
VELOX-P 2Satellite
CUBEBUG 2Satellite
NEE 02 KRYSAORSatellite
PUCP-SAT 1Satellite
FUNCUBE 1Satellite
HINCUBEEarth-watching satellite
UWE-3Satellite
BPA 3/SL-24Satellite
SL-24 DEBDebris

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, 8:06 AM, 8 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "ZACUBE",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-066B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:06:54.311904",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.02145344,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00397342,
  "INCLINATION": 97.8184,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 275.5622,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 128.0133,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 232.4689,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39417,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 70236,
  "BSTAR": 0.00046483148,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00006157,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}