- Earth-watching satellite
- KAZEOSAT 2
- NORAD 40010
- 2014-033A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over South Africa
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches KazEOSat-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 KazEOSat-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 for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is KazEOSat-2?
At 4:55:21 PM UTC KazEOSat-2 was over the Pacific Ocean (20.2° S, 154.3° W), 622 km up, moving at 7.55 km/s and in sunlight.
What is KazEOSat-2?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 19, 2014.
Can I see KazEOSat-2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for KazEOSat-2, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Kazakh National Space Agnecy
- State
- Kazakhstan, Republic of
- Built by
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd/Astrium
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 177 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, what it is for, 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
- 20.2° S, 154.3° W
- Altitude
- 622 km
- Speed
- 7.55 km/s (27,162 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:24 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- Orbital period
- 96.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.86
- This orbit
- 601 to 613 km
- In shadow
- 13 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,800 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:19 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:19 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for KazEOSat-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to KazEOSat-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
KazEOSat-2 shares its launch, 2014-033, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| HODOYOSHI 4 | Earth-watching satellite |
| UNISAT 6 | Satellite |
| DEIMOS 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| BUGSAT 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| HODOYOSHI 3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SAUDISAT 4 | Satellite |
| TABLETSAT AURORA | Earth-watching satellite |
| APRIZESAT 9 | Communications satellite |
| APRIZESAT 10 | Communications satellite |
| BRITE TORONTO | Space telescope |
| PACE | Satellite |
| NANOSAT C BR1 | Satellite |
| QB50P1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| POPSAT HIP 1 | Satellite |
| DTUSAT 2 | Communications satellite |
| QB50P2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ANTELSAT | Satellite |
| PERSEUS M2 | Communications satellite |
| PERSEUS M1 | Communications satellite |
| POLYITAN 1 | Satellite |
| TIGRISAT | Satellite |
| LEMUR 1 | Satellite |
| AEROCUBE 6A | Satellite |
| AEROCUBE 6B | Satellite |
| SL-24 R/B | Rocket body |
| SL-24 PLAT | 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KazEOSat-2 | 601 to 613 km | 97 minutes | 177 kg | 2014 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
| Aqua | 685 to 687 km | 98 minutes | about 2.9 t | 2002 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:19 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "KAZEOSAT 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2014-033A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:19:04.155744",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.86110739,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00084965,
"INCLINATION": 97.5304,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 144.2777,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 207.6311,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 152.4455,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40010,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 67035,
"BSTAR": 0.00013364857,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001121,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}