Hodoyoshi-4

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/40011

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • HODOYOSHI 4
  • NORAD 40011
  • 2014-033B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Hodoyoshi-4 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Republic of the Congo

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Hodoyoshi-4 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 Hodoyoshi-4, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Antarctica LIVE

Where is Hodoyoshi-4?

At 4:55:46 PM UTC Hodoyoshi-4 was over Antarctica (78.5° S, 131° W), 632 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Hodoyoshi-4?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 19, 2014.

Can I see Hodoyoshi-4?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Hodoyoshi-4, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
Tokyo University
State
Japan (Nippon), State of
Built by
AXELSPACE Corporation
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
64 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, 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
78.5° S, 131° W
Altitude
632 km
Speed
7.54 km/s (27,144 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:36 PM UTC
Inclination
97.5°
Orbital period
96.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.88
This orbit
584 to 616 km
In shadow
6 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,820 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:36 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:36 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Hodoyoshi-4, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Hodoyoshi-4 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

Hodoyoshi-4 shares its launch, 2014-033, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
KAZEOSAT 2Earth-watching satellite
UNISAT 6Satellite
DEIMOS 2Earth-watching satellite
BUGSAT 1Earth-watching satellite
HODOYOSHI 3Earth-watching satellite
SAUDISAT 4Satellite
TABLETSAT AURORAEarth-watching satellite
APRIZESAT 9Communications satellite
APRIZESAT 10Communications satellite
BRITE TORONTOSpace telescope
PACESatellite
NANOSAT C BR1Satellite
QB50P1Earth-watching satellite
POPSAT HIP 1Satellite
DTUSAT 2Communications satellite
QB50P2Earth-watching satellite
ANTELSATSatellite
PERSEUS M2Communications satellite
PERSEUS M1Communications satellite
POLYITAN 1Satellite
TIGRISATSatellite
LEMUR 1Satellite
AEROCUBE 6ASatellite
AEROCUBE 6BSatellite
SL-24 R/BRocket body
SL-24 PLATSatellite

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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Hodoyoshi-4584 to 616 km97 minutes64 kg2014
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015
Aqua685 to 687 km98 minutesabout 2.9 t2002

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:36 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HODOYOSHI 4",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-033B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:36:50.691168",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.88416506,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00232477,
  "INCLINATION": 97.5459,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 130.266,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 184.0158,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 176.0877,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40011,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 67024,
  "BSTAR": 0.00017893249,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001614,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}