UKube-1

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  • UKUBE 1
  • NORAD 40074
  • 2014-037F
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where UKube-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Norwegian Sea

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches UKube-1 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 UKube-1, 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 UKube-1?

At 6:20:45 PM UTC UKube-1 was over the Pacific Ocean (21.3° S, 175° W), 529 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is UKube-1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 8, 2014.

Can I see UKube-1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for UKube-1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
UK Space Agency
State
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Built by
Clyde Space Ltd.
Launched
Mass
4 kg
Operating
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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
21.3° S, 175° W
Altitude
529 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,346 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.4°
Orbital period
95 minutes
Orbits per day
15.15
This orbit
515 to 519 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,620 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:51 PM, 21 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:51 PM, 21 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for UKube-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to UKube-1 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

UKube-1 shares its launch, 2014-037, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
METEOR M2Earth-watching satellite
MKA PN2 (RELEK)Satellite
DX 1Satellite
SKYSAT 2Earth-watching satellite
DUMMY SATSatellite
AISSAT 2Communications satellite
TDS 1Satellite
FREGAT DEBDebris

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, 8:51 PM, 21 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "UKUBE 1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-037F",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:51:32.139072",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.15368869,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0002636,
  "INCLINATION": 98.4221,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 330.4683,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 67.3206,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 292.8302,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40074,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 67030,
  "BSTAR": 0.00059163,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00011093,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}