MCubed-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39469

  • MCUBED-2
  • NORAD 39469
  • 2013-072H
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where MCubed-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arabian Sea

Orbit ends over Somaliland

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches MCubed-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 MCubed-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 Bering Sea LIVE

Where is MCubed-2?

At 6:32:10 PM UTC MCubed-2 was over the Bering Sea (56.5° N, 163.8° E), 512 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is MCubed-2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 6, 2013.

Can I see MCubed-2?

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

General

Operator
University of Michigan
State
United States of America
Built by
University of Michigan
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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:32 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:32 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
56.5° N, 163.8° E
Altitude
512 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,403 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 6:33 PM UTC
Inclination
120.5°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.22
This orbit
408 to 588 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,590 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:01 AM, 14 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:01 AM, 14 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to MCubed-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

MCubed-2 shares its launch, 2013-072, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
ALICESatellite
IPEXSatellite
ATLAS 5 CENTAUR R/BRocket body

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, 4:01 AM, 14 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "MCUBED-2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-072H",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:01:03.192384",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.22352399,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.01311357,
  "INCLINATION": 120.4873,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 189.6554,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 168.3111,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 192.1051,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39469,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 13972,
  "BSTAR": 0.00067304982,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0001955,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}