- NORAD 43880
- 2018-111E
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Mongolia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches UWE-4 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 UWE-4, 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 Southern Ocean LIVE
Where is UWE-4?
At 5:35:32 PM UTC UWE-4 was over the Southern Ocean (61° S, 103.2° E), 423 km up, moving at 7.66 km/s and in sunlight.
What is UWE-4?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 27, 2018.
Can I see UWE-4?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for UWE-4, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg
- State
- Germany, Federal Republic of
- Built by
- Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg
- Launched
- Mass
- 1 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
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 61° S, 103.2° E
- Altitude
- 423 km
- Speed
- 7.66 km/s (27,558 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:30 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.6°
- Orbital period
- 92.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.56
- This orbit
- 390 to 401 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,400 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 8:09 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:09 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for UWE-4, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to UWE-4 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
UWE-4 shares its launch, 2018-111, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| KANOPUS-V 5 | Earth-watching satellite |
| KANOPUS-V 6 | Earth-watching satellite |
| GRUS-1A | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT R | Satellite |
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, 8:09 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "UWE-4",
"OBJECT_ID": "2018-111E",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T08:09:07.839648",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.56229845,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00077816,
"INCLINATION": 97.5886,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 247.3376,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 135.5902,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 224.5978,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 43880,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 43296,
"BSTAR": 0.00093516208,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00066005,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}