QB50P1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/40025

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • NORAD 40025
  • 2014-033R
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where QB50P1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Greenland

Orbit ends over Canada

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches QB50P1 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 QB50P1, 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 the Ross Sea LIVE

Where is QB50P1?

At 4:55:38 PM UTC QB50P1 was over the Ross Sea (79.1° S, 165.2° E), 540 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.

What is QB50P1?

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

Can I see QB50P1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for QB50P1, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
QB50 Consortium
State
Belgium, Kingdom of
Built by
Innovative Solutions In Space B.V.
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
2 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
79.1° S, 165.2° E
Altitude
540 km
Speed
7.59 km/s (27,313 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.1°
Orbital period
94.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.2
This orbit
496 to 509 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,650 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:49 PM, 20 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:49 PM, 20 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for QB50P1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to QB50P1 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

QB50P1 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
BRITE TORONTOSpace telescope
PACESatellite
NANOSAT C BR1Satellite
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
QB50P1496 to 509 km95 minutes2 kg2014
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
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

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 8:49 PM, 20 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "QB50P1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-033R",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:49:05.752416",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.20086821,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0009996,
  "INCLINATION": 98.0912,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 333.2779,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 93.1451,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 267.0926,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40025,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 67484,
  "BSTAR": 0.00049338,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00010597,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}