Aerocube 6A

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  • Military
  • AEROCUBE 6A
  • NORAD 40045
  • 2014-033AM
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Aerocube 6A is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches Aerocube 6A 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 Aerocube 6A, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Aerocube 6A?

At 4:54:41 PM UTC Aerocube 6A was over the Pacific Ocean (18° N, 174.3° E), 586 km up, moving at 7.56 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Aerocube 6A?

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

Can I see Aerocube 6A?

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

General

Operator
Aerospace Corp.
State
United States of America
Built by
Aerospace Corp.
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
0.5 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, that a defence organisation flies it, 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
18° N, 174.3° E
Altitude
586 km
Speed
7.56 km/s (27,220 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 4:56 PM UTC
Inclination
97.7°
Orbital period
96 minutes
Orbits per day
14.99
This orbit
541 to 590 km
In shadow
18 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,730 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 4:48 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 4:48 PM, 1 day old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Aerocube 6A 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

Aerocube 6A 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
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 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 7, 2026, 4:48 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "AEROCUBE 6A",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-033AM",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T16:48:22.507200",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.99387083,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00355599,
  "INCLINATION": 97.7361,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 117.3957,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 254.6387,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 105.0906,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40045,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 66811,
  "BSTAR": 0.00062516749,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00007695,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}