CP8/IPEX

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39471

  • IPEX
  • NORAD 39471
  • 2013-072K
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where CP8/IPEX is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Algeria

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches CP8/IPEX 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 CP8/IPEX, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is CP8/IPEX?

At 6:20:22 PM UTC CP8/IPEX was over the Atlantic Ocean (39° S, 42.8° W), 519 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is CP8/IPEX?

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

Can I see CP8/IPEX?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for CP8/IPEX, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
California Polytechnic State University
State
United States of America
Built by
California Polytechnic State University
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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
39° S, 42.8° W
Altitude
519 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,428 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 7:03 PM UTC
Inclination
120.5°
Orbital period
95.3 minutes
Orbits per day
15.11
This orbit
422 to 645 km
In shadow
31 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,600 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 5:31 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 5:31 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for CP8/IPEX, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to CP8/IPEX 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

CP8/IPEX shares its launch, 2013-072, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
ALICESatellite
MCUBED-2Satellite
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 7, 2026, 5:31 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "IPEX",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-072K",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T17:31:31.878912",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.10608681,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.01614411,
  "INCLINATION": 120.4635,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 124.6705,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 149.3331,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 211.7288,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39471,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 13690,
  "BSTAR": 0.00060848888,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.000135,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}