- Earth-watching satellite
- NORAD 40032
- 2014-033Y
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Poland
Orbit ends over the English Channel
In view from you
Nobody watches QB50P2 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 QB50P2, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Southern Ocean LIVE
Where is QB50P2?
At 4:54:57 PM UTC QB50P2 was over the Southern Ocean (64.7° S, 34.6° E), 543 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.
What is QB50P2?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 19, 2014.
Can I see QB50P2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for QB50P2, 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
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 64.7° S, 34.6° E
- Altitude
- 543 km
- Speed
- 7.59 km/s (27,317 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- Orbital period
- 94.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.17
- This orbit
- 507 to 518 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,650 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:07 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:07 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for QB50P2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to QB50P2 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.
Launched with
QB50P2 shares its launch, 2014-033, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| KAZEOSAT 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| HODOYOSHI 4 | Earth-watching satellite |
| UNISAT 6 | Satellite |
| DEIMOS 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| BUGSAT 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| HODOYOSHI 3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SAUDISAT 4 | Satellite |
| TABLETSAT AURORA | Earth-watching satellite |
| APRIZESAT 9 | Communications satellite |
| APRIZESAT 10 | Communications satellite |
| BRITE TORONTO | Space telescope |
| PACE | Satellite |
| NANOSAT C BR1 | Satellite |
| QB50P1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| POPSAT HIP 1 | Satellite |
| DTUSAT 2 | Communications satellite |
| ANTELSAT | Satellite |
| PERSEUS M2 | Communications satellite |
| PERSEUS M1 | Communications satellite |
| POLYITAN 1 | Satellite |
| TIGRISAT | Satellite |
| LEMUR 1 | Satellite |
| AEROCUBE 6A | Satellite |
| AEROCUBE 6B | Satellite |
| SL-24 R/B | Rocket body |
| SL-24 PLAT | Satellite |
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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QB50P2 | 507 to 518 km | 95 minutes | 2 kg | 2014 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:07 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "QB50P2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2014-033Y",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:07:21.553248",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.16774723,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00085076,
"INCLINATION": 98.0795,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 318.3448,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 52.4056,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 307.7947,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40032,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 67449,
"BSTAR": 0.0005558939,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00010856,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}