SHERPA-FX 2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/48958

  • SHERPA-FX2/TAGSAT-2
  • NORAD 48958
  • 2021-059CH
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where SHERPA-FX 2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Mediterranean Sea

Orbit ends over Algeria

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches SHERPA-FX 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 SHERPA-FX 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is SHERPA-FX 2?

At 6:20:18 PM UTC SHERPA-FX 2 was over the Atlantic Ocean (45.9° S, 7.3° E), 398 km up, moving at 7.67 km/s and in sunlight.

What is SHERPA-FX 2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 30, 2021.

Can I see SHERPA-FX 2?

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

General

Operator
Spaceflight Industries Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
Spaceflight Industries Inc.
Launched
Mass
128 kg
Operating
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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
45.9° S, 7.3° E
Altitude
398 km
Speed
7.67 km/s (27,616 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 7:15 PM UTC
Inclination
97.7°
Orbital period
92.2 minutes
Orbits per day
15.62
This orbit
374 to 382 km
In shadow
28 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,340 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 7:33 AM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 7:33 AM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for SHERPA-FX 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to SHERPA-FX 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

SHERPA-FX 2 shares its launch, 2021-059, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-3005Communications satellite
TYVAK-0173Satellite
MANDRAKE 2 ABLECommunications satellite
MANDRAKE 2 BAKERCommunications satellite
YAM-3Satellite
HAWK-3BSatellite
HAWK-3CSatellite
DEMO8(TENZING)Satellite
HAWK-3ASatellite

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, 7:33 AM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SHERPA-FX2/TAGSAT-2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2021-059CH",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T07:33:27.741024",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.62351291,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0006058,
  "INCLINATION": 97.6701,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 156.7134,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 152.7675,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 207.3901,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 48958,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 29972,
  "BSTAR": 0.00047828369,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00042341,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}