Hawk 2A

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/47505

  • HAWK-2A
  • NORAD 47505
  • 2021-006CW
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Hawk 2A is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over the Baltic Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Hawk 2A 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 Hawk 2A, 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 South Sudan LIVE

Where is Hawk 2A?

At 6:21:24 PM UTC Hawk 2A was over South Sudan (6.6° N, 30.8° E), 456 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Hawk 2A?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 24, 2021.

Can I see Hawk 2A?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Hawk 2A, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
HawkEye 360 Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
Launched
Mass
31 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
6:21 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:21 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
6.6° N, 30.8° E
Altitude
456 km
Speed
7.64 km/s (27,508 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:39 PM UTC
Inclination
97.2°
Orbital period
93.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.36
This orbit
449 to 459 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,470 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:15 AM, 14 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:15 AM, 14 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Hawk 2A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Hawk 2A 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

Hawk 2A shares its launch, 2021-006, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT LSatellite
OBJECT MSatellite
RIDESHARE ADAPTERSatellite
OBJECT ZSatellite
OBJECT AASatellite
CUBELSatellite
CELESTIS 17/SHERPA-FX1Satellite
HAWK-2CSatellite
ION SCV-002Satellite
HAWK-2BSatellite
GHGSAT-C2Earth-watching 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 8, 2026, 4:15 AM, 14 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HAWK-2A",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-006CW",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:15:32.063616",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.36239768,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00076229,
  "INCLINATION": 97.2154,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 354.3948,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 58.2251,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 301.9735,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 47505,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 32159,
  "BSTAR": 0.00028534016,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00010011,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}