- AIST 1
- NORAD 39492
- 2013-078C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the United States of America
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Aist 1 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 Aist 1, 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 the Laptev Sea LIVE
Where is Aist 1?
At 12:41:35 AM UTC Aist 1 was over the Laptev Sea (78° N, 110.4° E), 586 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Aist 1?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 28, 2013.
Can I see Aist 1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Aist 1, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Samara State Aerospace University
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- Samara State Aerospace University
- Launched
- Mass
- 50 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
- 12:41 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 12:41 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 78° N, 110.4° E
- Altitude
- 586 km
- Speed
- 7.58 km/s (27,274 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 82.4°
- Orbital period
- 96.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.96
- This orbit
- 563 to 587 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,740 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:40 AM, 18 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:40 AM, 18 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Aist 1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Aist 1 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 2:43 PM, 9 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
Aist 1 shares its launch, 2013-078, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| COSMOS 2493 (SKRL 756) | Satellite |
| COSMOS 2494 (SKRL 756) | 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, 6:40 AM, 18 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "AIST 1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2013-078C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:40:50.833632",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.9638494,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00171976,
"INCLINATION": 82.413,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 131.2702,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 149.7764,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 210.4453,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 39492,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 69679,
"BSTAR": 0.00015036453,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001733,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}