Aurora Insight Alpha

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/43796

  • THEA
  • NORAD 43796
  • 2018-099AQ
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Aurora Insight Alpha is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Canada

Orbit ends over Hudson Bay

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Aurora Insight Alpha 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 Aurora Insight Alpha, 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 India LIVE

Where is Aurora Insight Alpha?

At 4:54:44 PM UTC Aurora Insight Alpha was over India (24.1° N, 79.3° E), 450 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Aurora Insight Alpha?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 3, 2018.

Can I see Aurora Insight Alpha?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Aurora Insight Alpha, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Aurora Insight Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
SpaceQuest
Launched
Mass
5 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
4:54 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:54 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
24.1° N, 79.3° E
Altitude
450 km
Speed
7.64 km/s (27,518 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 5:09 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
93.5 minutes
Orbits per day
15.4
This orbit
438 to 449 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,460 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:19 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:19 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Aurora Insight Alpha, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Aurora Insight Alpha 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

Aurora Insight Alpha shares its launch, 2018-099, with 40 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
MINXSS-2Space telescope
SIRION PATHFINDER-2Communications satellite
OBJECT DSatellite
STPSAT-5Satellite
UPPER FREE FLYERSatellite
HAWK-ASatellite
SPAWAR-CAL-OSatellite
CORVUS BC4Earth-watching satellite
AISTECHSAT-2Communications satellite
AO-95Satellite
OBJECT PSatellite
RANGE ASatellite
OBJECT TSatellite
SPAWAR-CAL-RSatellite
SPAWAR-CAL-ORSatellite
M1Earth-watching satellite
SNUSAT-2Satellite
KAZSTSATEarth-watching satellite
SNUGLITESatellite
ITASATSatellite
EAGLET 1Satellite
ESEOSatellite
HAWK-BSatellite
SKYSAT C12Earth-watching satellite
ASTROCAST-01Communications satellite
HAWK-CSatellite
ICEYE-X2Earth-watching satellite
JY1SATSatellite
SUOMI100Satellite
OBJECT BASatellite
EUCROPISSatellite
POLAR SCOUT YUKONSatellite
CENTAURI-1Communications satellite
OBJECT BESatellite
NEXTSAT-1Space telescope
GLOBAL-2Earth-watching satellite
FALCONSAT-6Satellite
EXCITESatellite
SEAHAWK-1Satellite
OBJECT BSSatellite

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, 4:19 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "THEA",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-099AQ",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:19:50.114496",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.39814942,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00078454,
  "INCLINATION": 97.43,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 23.6321,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 123.6418,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 236.5577,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43796,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 43481,
  "BSTAR": 0.00095260313,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00037868,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}