- Military
- LDPE-2
- NORAD 54219
- 2022-144A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Ceram Sea
Orbit ends over the Banda Sea
In view from you
Nobody watches LDPE 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 LDPE 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 Molucca Sea LIVE
Where is LDPE 2?
At 6:25:23 PM UTC LDPE 2 was over the Molucca Sea (2.9° N, 126° E), 36,104 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.
What is LDPE 2?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Nov 1, 2022.
Can I see LDPE 2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for LDPE 2, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- US Air Force Research Laboratories/RV (Space Vehicles Directorate)
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 500 kg
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:25 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:25 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 2.9° N, 126° E
- Altitude
- 36,104 km
- Speed
- 3.06 km/s (11,027 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 6.1°
- Orbital period
- 1,452.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 36,103 to 36,121 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:43 AM, 13 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:43 AM, 13 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for LDPE 2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to LDPE 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
LDPE 2 shares its launch, 2022-144, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| FALCON HEAVY R/B | Rocket body |
| FALCON HEAVY DEB | Debris |
| USA 340 | Satellite |
| LINUSS1 | Satellite |
| LINUSS2 | 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, 4:43 AM, 13 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "LDPE-2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-144A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:43:44.618016",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.99126583,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021338,
"INCLINATION": 6.1267,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 62.0326,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 337.4845,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 207.3453,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 54219,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 1327,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000259,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}