- AUTCUBE 2
- NORAD 43681
- 2018-084K
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Antarctica
Orbit ends over Antarctica
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches AUTCube-2 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 AUTCube-2, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is AUTCube-2?
At 4:56:18 PM UTC AUTCube-2 was over the Pacific Ocean (21.8° S, 132.2° W), 539 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.
What is AUTCube-2?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 29, 2018.
Can I see AUTCube-2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for AUTCube-2, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Aichi University of Technology
- State
- Japan (Nippon), State of
- Built by
- Aichi University of Technology
- Launched
- Mass
- 1.6 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
- 4:56 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:56 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 21.8° S, 132.2° W
- Altitude
- 539 km
- Speed
- 7.59 km/s (27,335 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:25 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- Orbital period
- 95.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.11
- This orbit
- 525 to 536 km
- In shadow
- 28 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,640 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 8:22 PM, 20 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:22 PM, 20 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for AUTCube-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to AUTCube-2 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
AUTCube-2 shares its launch, 2018-084, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| GOSAT 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| KHALIFASAT | Earth-watching satellite |
| TEN-KOH | Satellite |
| DIWATA 2B | Earth-watching satellite |
| STARS-AO | Space telescope |
| H-2A R/B | Rocket body |
| H-2A DEB * | Debris |
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, 8:22 PM, 20 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "AUTCUBE 2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2018-084K",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:22:20.734176",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.10887778,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00073076,
"INCLINATION": 98.0522,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 165.614,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 278.4088,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 81.6311,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 43681,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 43861,
"BSTAR": 0.00025898918,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00004243,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}