Aerocube 8D

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/41852

  • Military
  • AEROCUBE 8D
  • NORAD 41852
  • 2016-067E
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Aerocube 8D is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Aerocube 8D 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 8D, 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 Russia LIVE

Where is Aerocube 8D?

At 6:20:05 PM UTC Aerocube 8D was over Russia (68.1° N, 71.4° E), 499 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Aerocube 8D?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 11, 2016.

Can I see Aerocube 8D?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Aerocube 8D, 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
68.1° N, 71.4° E
Altitude
499 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,436 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:49 PM UTC
Inclination
98°
Orbital period
94.4 minutes
Orbits per day
15.26
This orbit
482 to 487 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,560 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 10:58 PM, 19 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:58 PM, 19 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Aerocube 8D, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Aerocube 8D 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 8D shares its launch, 2016-067, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
RAVANSatellite
CELTEE 1Satellite
OPTICUBE 04Satellite
AEROCUBE 8CSatellite

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, 10:58 PM, 19 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "AEROCUBE 8D",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2016-067E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:58:12.486144",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.26183615,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0003789,
  "INCLINATION": 98.0444,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 193.066,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 23.8977,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 336.2435,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 41852,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 54798,
  "BSTAR": 0.00046133,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00011856,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}