AprizeSat-9

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/40018

  • Communications satellite
  • APRIZESAT 9
  • NORAD 40018
  • 2014-033J
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where AprizeSat-9 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Barents Sea

Orbit ends over the Greenland Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches AprizeSat-9 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 AprizeSat-9, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is AprizeSat-9?

At 4:55:14 PM UTC AprizeSat-9 was over the Pacific Ocean (7.7° N, 139.8° E), 647 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is AprizeSat-9?

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

Can I see AprizeSat-9?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for AprizeSat-9, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
SpaceQuest
State
United States of America
Built by
SpaceQuest
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
14 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
7.7° N, 139.8° E
Altitude
647 km
Speed
7.54 km/s (27,130 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:16 PM UTC
Inclination
97.9°
Orbital period
97.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.74
This orbit
597 to 691 km
In shadow
32 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,850 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:13 AM, 14 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:13 AM, 14 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for AprizeSat-9, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to AprizeSat-9 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

AprizeSat-9 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
UNISAT 6Satellite
DEIMOS 2Earth-watching satellite
BUGSAT 1Earth-watching satellite
HODOYOSHI 3Earth-watching satellite
SAUDISAT 4Satellite
TABLETSAT AURORAEarth-watching 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
AprizeSat-9597 to 691 km98 minutes14 kg2014
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 2:13 AM, 14 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "APRIZESAT 9",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-033J",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:13:35.395392",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.74366528,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00672884,
  "INCLINATION": 97.9268,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 81.9667,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 97.6125,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 263.2733,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40018,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 66476,
  "BSTAR": 0.00010920123,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000698,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}