CanX-4

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/40055

  • CANX-4
  • NORAD 40055
  • 2014-034C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where CanX-4 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over Antarctica

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches CanX-4 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 CanX-4, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is CanX-4?

At 5:36:58 PM UTC CanX-4 was over the Indian Ocean (2° S, 60.7° E), 627 km up, moving at 7.55 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is CanX-4?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 30, 2014.

Can I see CanX-4?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for CanX-4, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
State
Canada
Built by
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
2° S, 60.7° E
Altitude
627 km
Speed
7.55 km/s (27,162 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:47 PM UTC
Inclination
98.3°
Orbital period
97.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.81
This orbit
614 to 630 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,810 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:12 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:12 AM, 15 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for CanX-4, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to CanX-4 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

CanX-4 shares its launch, 2014-034, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SPOT 7Earth-watching satellite
AISATCommunications satellite
CANX-5Satellite
VELOX 1Satellite
PSLV R/BRocket body

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 8, 2026, 2:12 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "CANX-4",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-034C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:12:27.811584",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.81474244,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00113639,
  "INCLINATION": 98.2885,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 192.5187,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 268.7152,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 91.2758,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40055,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 66583,
  "BSTAR": 0.00015342786,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001146,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}