BRITE-Toronto

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/40020

  • Space telescope
  • BRITE TORONTO
  • NORAD 40020
  • 2014-033L
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where BRITE-Toronto is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches BRITE-Toronto 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 BRITE-Toronto, 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 far too faint for the naked eye, and catching it would take a telescope driven to follow a point crossing the sky in minutes. What is worth looking at is what it sends back.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Russia LIVE

Where is BRITE-Toronto?

At 4:41:15 PM UTC BRITE-Toronto was over Russia (72.8° N, 114.1° E), 672 km up, moving at 7.52 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is BRITE-Toronto?

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

Can I see BRITE-Toronto?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for BRITE-Toronto, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is what it sees, which its operator publishes.

General

Operator
Canadian Space Agency
State
Canada
Built by
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
What it is
Space telescope
Launched
Mass
7 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
4:41 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:41 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
72.8° N, 114.1° E
Altitude
672 km
Speed
7.52 km/s (27,083 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 4:44 PM UTC
Inclination
98°
Orbital period
97.8 minutes
Orbits per day
14.73
This orbit
594 to 704 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,890 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:11 AM, 8 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:11 AM, 8 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to BRITE-Toronto 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

BRITE-Toronto 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 9Communications satellite
APRIZESAT 10Communications satellite
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
BRITE-Toronto594 to 704 km98 minutes7 kg2014
Cheops679 to 694 km98 minutes280 kg2019
Fermi488 to 498 km94 minutesabout 4.3 t2008
Hubble465 to 480 km94 minutesabout 12.2 t1990
XMM-Newton29,443 to 91,682 km2,873 minutesabout 3.8 t1999
Chandra12,186 to 136,630 km3,809 minutesabout 4.8 t1999

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:11 AM, 8 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "BRITE TORONTO",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-033L",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:11:40.285536",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.72895844,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00784525,
  "INCLINATION": 97.9934,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 78.7965,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 174.5099,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 185.6987,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40020,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 66343,
  "BSTAR": 0.00022989567,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001493,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}