Unisat-6

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/40012

  • UNISAT 6
  • NORAD 40012
  • 2014-033C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Unisat-6 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Tasman Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Unisat-6 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 Unisat-6, 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 Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is Unisat-6?

At 4:55:33 PM UTC Unisat-6 was over the Southern Ocean (70.1° S, 40.8° W), 613 km up, moving at 7.56 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Unisat-6?

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

Can I see Unisat-6?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Unisat-6, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Group of Astrodynamics for the Use of Space Systems, GAUSS SrI
State
Italian Republic
Built by
Group of Astrodynamics for the Use of Space Systems, GAUSS SrI
Launched
Mass
19 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, 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
70.1° S, 40.8° W
Altitude
613 km
Speed
7.56 km/s (27,212 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:21 PM UTC
Inclination
97.8°
Orbital period
96.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.89
This orbit
568 to 629 km
In shadow
27 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,790 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:43 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:43 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Unisat-6, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Unisat-6 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

Unisat-6 shares its launch, 2014-033, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
KAZEOSAT 2Earth-watching satellite
HODOYOSHI 4Earth-watching satellite
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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:43 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "UNISAT 6",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-033C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:43:52.680000",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.88845737,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00434416,
  "INCLINATION": 97.8055,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 102.7427,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 314.3535,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 45.4125,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40012,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 66760,
  "BSTAR": 0.00040610224,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003815,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}