Kelpie-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/55107

  • Communications satellite
  • AAC-AIS-SAT-1
  • NORAD 55107
  • 2023-001DC
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kelpie-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Gulf of Mexico

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Kelpie-1 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 Kelpie-1, 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Kelpie-1?

At 5:39:40 PM UTC Kelpie-1 was over the Pacific Ocean (0.4° S, 102.6° W), 585 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Kelpie-1?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 3, 2023.

Can I see Kelpie-1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kelpie-1, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
AAC Microtec/Clyde Space Ltd.
State
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Built by
AAC Microtec/Clyde Space Ltd.
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
4 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, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
0.4° S, 102.6° W
Altitude
585 km
Speed
7.57 km/s (27,256 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:14 PM UTC
Inclination
97.9°
Orbital period
96.4 minutes
Orbits per day
14.93
This orbit
578 to 592 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,730 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:35 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:35 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kelpie-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kelpie-1 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

Kelpie-1 shares its launch, 2023-001, with 26 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT AEarth-watching satellite
MENUTEarth-watching satellite
BRO-8Satellite
CONNECTA T1.2Communications satellite
BIRKELANDSatellite
OBJECT HSatellite
LYNK TOWER 4Communications satellite
SKYKRAFT-1Satellite
CONTINUUM-1Earth-watching satellite
LYNK TOWER 3Communications satellite
NUSAT-33 (ALBANIA-2)Earth-watching satellite
NUSAT-35 (WILLIAMINA)Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-008Satellite
EOSSAT-1Earth-watching satellite
SKYKRAFT-1ACommunications satellite
VIGORIDE 5Satellite
ION SCV-007Satellite
SKYKRAFT-1CCommunications satellite
YAM-5Satellite
HUYGENSSatellite
KUWAITSAT-1Satellite
SHARJAHSAT-1Satellite
ASTROCAST-0402Communications satellite
ASTROCAST-0401Communications satellite
ASTROCAST-0403Communications satellite
ASTROCAST-0404Communications 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Kelpie-1578 to 592 km96 minutes4 kg2023
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:35 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "AAC-AIS-SAT-1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-001DC",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:35:54.453696",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.93159672,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00100116,
  "INCLINATION": 97.9101,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 29.7701,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 155.8073,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 204.3618,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 55107,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 19977,
  "BSTAR": 0.00079478985,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000825,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}