- Military
- AEROCUBE 7
- NORAD 40966
- 2015-058C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Aerocube 7 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 7, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Aerocube 7?
At 6:20:01 PM UTC Aerocube 7 was over the Atlantic Ocean (48.3° N, 23.1° W), 624 km up, moving at 7.53 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Aerocube 7?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 8, 2015.
Can I see Aerocube 7?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Aerocube 7, 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
- 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, 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 48.3° N, 23.1° W
- Altitude
- 624 km
- Speed
- 7.53 km/s (27,108 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 64.8°
- Orbital period
- 96.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.97
- This orbit
- 483 to 668 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,810 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:33 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:33 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Aerocube 7, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Aerocube 7 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
Aerocube 7 shares its launch, 2015-058, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| AEROCUBE 5C | Satellite |
| FOX-1 | Communications satellite |
| BISONSAT | Satellite |
| ARC-1 | Satellite |
| LMRST-SAT | Satellite |
| PROPCUBE 3 | Satellite |
| SINOD-D 1 | Satellite |
| SNAP-3 JIMI | Communications satellite |
| PROPCUBE 1 | Satellite |
| SINOD-D 3 | Satellite |
| ATLAS 5 CENTAUR R/B | Rocket 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, 6:33 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "AEROCUBE 7",
"OBJECT_ID": "2015-058C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:33:41.013504",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.96714638,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.01332679,
"INCLINATION": 64.7597,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 153.139,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 8.1923,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 352.1322,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40966,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 38751,
"BSTAR": 0.00037487874,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004964,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}